Quotes About Struggle

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

Experience is often a brutal teacher. Experience eats up you most valuable commodity:time. Learning from experience can eat up years. It can steal an entire stage of life.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work ' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

Politics is a blood sport.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

the hardest job is being a burden to everyone around you, when no one wants you around then you are merely useless.

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

CAÍDA Y me vuelvo a caer desde mí mismo al vacío, a la nada. ¡Qué pirueta! ¿Desciendo o vuelo? No lo sé. Recibo el golpe de rigor, y me incorporo. Me toco para ver si hubo gran daño, mas no me encuentro. Mi cuerpo ¿dónde está? Me duele sólo el alma. Nada grave.

We all have our own special brand of pain and hurt.

A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.

I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people having battles with the DHSS. But I...I haven't. They're dull things. I mean, I'm an arty person. OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?

And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape.

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

I shall take two huge handfuls of his rustling hair as he lies half dreaming, half waking, and wind them into ropes, very softly, so he will not wake up, and, softly, with hands as gentle as rain, I shall strangle him with them.

Wars are facts we cannot fuck away, Perry; nor laugh away, either.

I am happy only in that I am a monster.

How can she bear the pain of becoming human? The end of exile is the end of being.