Quotes About Struggle

Living's much more difficult than Sanskrit or chemistry or economics.

Tak tedy ano," pravil divoch vzdornÄ›, "požaduji právo být neÅ¡Å¥astný." "NemluvÄ› již o právu na stáÃ…â"¢í, oÅ¡klivost i impotenci; o právu na vÅ¡i; o právu na život v ustavi?ných obavách pÃ…â"¢ed zítÃ…â"¢kem; o právu dostat tyfus; o právu být mu?en nevýslovnými bolestmi vÅ¡eho druhu.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Yo soy yo, y desearía no serlo. La conciencia que tenía de sí mismo era muy aguda y dolorosa. Cada vez que se descubría a sí mismo mirando horizontalmente y no de arriba abajo a la cara de un Delta, se sentía humillado

Ah, if only one had work of one's own, proper work, decent work—not forced upon one by the griping of one's belly!

Consider your own lives," said Mustapha Mond. "Has any of you ever encountered an insurmountable obstacle?" The question was answered by a negative silence. "Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfilment?

happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never

I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvellous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

He would have liked to behave well, but he did not know how to stop behaving badly.

La felicità effettiva sembra sempre molto squallida in confronto ai grandi compensi che la miseria trova. E si capisce anche che la stabilità non è neppure emozionante come l'instabilità. E l'essere contenti non ha nulla di affascinante al paragone di una buona lotta contro la sfortuna, nulla del pittoresco di una lotta contro la tentazione, o di una fatale sconfitta a causa della passione o del dubbio. La felicità non è mai grandiosa.

Exultante ante el pensamiento de que se hallaba solo, enzarzado en una lucha heroica contra el orden de las cosas; animado por la embriagadora conciencia de su significación e importancia individual.

Hubo discursos sobre la libertad, a propósito de ello. Libertad para ser consciente y desgraciado. Libertad para ser una clavija redonda en un agujero cuadrado.

La felicidad real siempre aparece escuálida por comparación con las compensaciones que ofrece la desdicha. Y, naturalmente, la estabilidad no es, ni con mucho, tan espectacular como la inestabilidad. Estar satisfecho de todo no posee el encanto que supone mantener una lucha justa contra la infelicidad, ni el pintoresquismo del combate contra la tentación o contra una pasión fatal o una duda. La felicidad nunca tiene grandeza.

I am I, and I wish I wasn't

Todos nosotros —prosiguió el Interventor, meditabundo— vivimos en el interior de un frasco. Mas para los Alfas, los frascos, relativamente hablando, son enormes. Nosotros sufriríamos horriblemente si fuésemos confinados en un espacio más estrecho. No se puede verter sucedáneo de champaña de las clases altas en los frascos de las castas bajas.

El cáncer de pulmón, los accidentes de tránsito y los millones de alcohólicos miserables y transmisores de miseria son hechos todavía más ciertos de lo que era en tiempos de Dante el hecho del Infierno.

Pero todos ellos son hechos remotos e insustanciales al lado del hecho próximo y muy sentido del ansia, aquí, ahora, de un alivio, de un sedante, de un trago o un cigarrillo.

In all psychophysical skills we have this curious fact of the law of reversed effort: the harder we try, the worse we do the thing.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contended has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Ebbene, si disse il Selvaggio in tono di sfida io reclamo il diritto d'essere infelice

E é evidente que a estabilidade, como espetáculo, não chega aos calcanhares da instabilidade. E o facto de se estar satisfeito não tem nada com o encanto mágico de uma boa luta contra a desgraça, nada do pitoresco de um combate contra a tentação, ou de uma derrota fatal sob os golpes da paixão ou da dúvida. A felicidade nunca é grandiosa.

an agony of humiliated indecision

The murkiest den, the most opportune place" (the voice of conscience thundered poetically), "the strongest suggestion our worser genius can, shall never melt mine honour into lust. Never, never!" he resolved.