Quotes About Struggle

Sex is the last resort of the miserable

When I was a child my ineptitude was a burden to my parents and my teachers. They could not see that it was a greater burden to me. I wondered wanly if I would ever discover how to do anything well. At long last I have learned something even better - how not to do anything at all.

A little old lady once said to me, 'I have known a great many men. All of them had to be carried every step of the way.

The monasteries of Bohemia demand more of their brotherhood than some are prepared to give. The daily routine of back-breaking idleness proves too much for certain novices. The self-inflicted orgies that are the inevitable punishment for the slightest deviation into the bourgeois way of life are more than their frail flesh can stand. Many discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots, and greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope

It is hard enough to share wealth without being involved in undignified scenes; shared poverty consists of nothing else.

A lifetime of being constantly at the mercy of others left me, even though mercy was undoubtedly shown, crushed and seething with a lust for tyranny.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

When a man of principle battles a scoundrel, the scoundrel always at first has the upper hand. Because there are some things the man of principle won't do.

He's reading it pretty good, but he's still reading it from the page, and every once in a while he stumbles over his words.

Mr White and Mr Pink have a very ungraceful and realistic fight. They go at each other like a couple of alley cats.

Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?

I'd lost faith in anyone giving me money- and then that's when I got the money.

Vos larmes sont douces et me touchent. Je vous abandonne parce que je ne songe plus à vos seins dans mes rêves. J'ai vu d'autres visages. Nos cœurs sont des affamés. Notre esprit ne connaît pas le repos. La vie est belle à proportion qu'elle est féroce, comme nos proies.

Though this enemy opposes us—though he hates us and does all he can to thwart God's plans for our redemption and freedom—his strategies are doomed to failure when faced with the power of God. God intends for us to use that power to oppose our enemy. He intends for us to use the authority that Jesus provides to believers (see Luke 10:19–20).

Al final ¿cómo es el asunto? ¿uno va llevando su vida adelante, o la vida se lo lleva por delante a uno?

Nadie amasa una fortuna sin hacer harina a otros

tant elle souffrait en revenant. Et elle pleurait des jours entiers de chagrin, de désespoir et de détresse.

Men or tigers, sphex or carabs are under the same necessity; to kill or to die, or to shed blood or eat grass. But to eat grass, is not much better than suicide: ask the lambkins.

You can win a million battles but you can only lose one.

There are two things you can run and not hide from–God and a dysfunctional family.

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough. It is potentially liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.