Quotes About Struggle

Here's another thing: There are certain wounds that never heal, certain hurts that never leave you alone, like a broken bone that heals wrong and always twinges when it's about to rain.

When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand- new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good, long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go.

But I don't think that's the case for a lot of people. For a lot of people, for a lot the people I met in the bin, I think personal choice has very little to do with it.

I'm not having much of a life. It's not awful, just ordinary. I am trying to accommodate the memories of the life I had with the life I am now living, and I just can't do it. After being behind the wheel of a Lamborghini going 140 down Sunset Drive at four a.m., it's hard to get up and put on a polyester shirt and sell books at Barnes and Noble. But I'm not ashamed of it.

You can live with hopelessness for only so long before you are, in fact, hopeless.

She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way to get back to where she had been before. The

Every day there was some new tragedy, some new and inexplicable failure of the ordinary.

It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other.

It was just a story about despair.

There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: "Let us be friends." It reminds me of the bargain the cock wished to make with the horse: "Let us agree not to step on each other's feet.

Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

end up paying an awful price. The way to handle your area of poverty is to say, "I need help.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.

The old Spanish revolutionary slogan, 'un pueblo unido jamás será vencido' ('a people, united, will never be defeated') applies less to the divided countries of the continent than to almost any other.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

When it is bad… I go into the night and the night eats me

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Battle against obscurity

There are men who, at the bottom of the ladder, battle to rise; they study, struggle, keep their wits alive and eventually get up to a place where they are received as an equal among respectable intellectuals. Here they find warmth and comfort for their pride, and here the struggle ends, and a death of many years commences. They could have gone on living.

No pains. No gains

The only glory to be had was the glory of surviving.

You only had to be in one fight to know what a beautiful thing a trench could be. The first minié ball whizzes by your head, and you're a digging man evermore.