Quotes About Struggle

If the people show too much courage on this world, the society must choke them to break them - and by that, of course, kill them. The society breaks everyone, but after that many become stronger on that broken places. And those it cannot broke, it kills them.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

You have anything else eating you?" "Just in general." "How?" "Well I'm half crazy and you're half crazy and then we've got this crew of half saints and desperate men." "It isn't bad to be half saint and half desperate man.

Pero el hombre no está hecho para la derrota —dijo—. Un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.

To win a war, we must kill our enemies.

In the old days he would not have worried, but the fighting part of him was tired now, along with the other part, and he was alone in all of this now and he lay on the big, wide, old bed and could neither read nor sleep.

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO I thought the pain alone would kill me

the world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places

his fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am? He

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who. Now

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain.

If a husband works until six he gets only a little drunk on the way home and does not waste too much. If he works only until five he is drunk every night and one has no money. It is the wife of the working man who suffers from this shortening of hours.

It was higher than a big scythe blade and a very pale lavender above the dark blue water. It raked back and as the fish swam just below the surface the old man could see his huge bulk and the purple stripes that banded him. His dorsal fin was down and his huge pectorals were spread wide.

You're feeling it now, fish, he said. And so, God knows, am I.

for all the poor in the world against all tyranny

Ara went down and Thomas Hudson was alone with the night and the sea and he still rode it like a horse going downhill too fast across broken country.

El hombre no está hecho para la derrota; un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.

The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything. Rest now, old man, and let him work until your next duty comes.

Mas o homem não foi feito para a derrota — disse em voz alta. — Um homem pode ser destruído, mas nunca derrotado

I had always expected to become devout. All my family died very devout. But somehow it does not come." "It's too early." "Maybe it is too late. Perhaps I have outlived my religious feeling." "My own comes only at night." "Then too you are in love. Do not forget that is a religious feeling.

El mundo rompe a todos y después muchos, son fuertes en los lugares rotos.

Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.

I didn't know how I could feel any worse. But you can all right. I can promise you that.