Quotes About Struggle

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

To live a life half dead, a living death.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

God is good to me, even when life doesn't feel good to me.

Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

Life is not easy. Life is very harsh. We have to be strong. Otherwise, life will destroy us.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

Life is not fair and people are not equal.