Quotes About Struggle

Drinking was what you did when things were so overwhelmingly good you needed a hangover to tamp them down, or when things were so overwhelmingly bad you needed to forget.

I was deliberately southern African. Not in a good or easy way. There is no getting around the fact that there had been so much awful violence to get me here; my people had engaged in such terrible acts of denial and oppression; I so obviously did not look Africa; and yet here I still was.

squinting thousand-yard stare of a person who has lived both in bright sunshine and among crocodiles and hippos his whole life.

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

He will increase in strength and honor by struggling with adversity, which he will convert into prosperity.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.

I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)

There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive. Do you intend to fight back at fate, Valentine? That's what I came here to ask you. -Maximilien Morrel

You're not worried about anything, are you? said Danglers. It seems to me everything's going perfectly for you. That's exactly what worries me, replied Dantes. I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

Celui-la seul qui a eprouve l'extreme infortune est apte a ressentir l'extreme felicite. Il faut avoir voulu mourir pour savoir combien el est bon de vivre.