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Quotes About Struggle

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
~ Luigi Pirandello
It is not peace that I seek, but life.
~ Romain Rolland
I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.
~ Sal Mineo
Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
~ Scott Hamilton
I'm especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.
~ Shakti Gawain
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
~ Stendhal
I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life).
~ Steven Morrissey
The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.
~ Sue Grafton
It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.
~ T. D. Jakes
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
~ Terence
Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.
~ Theodore Dreiser
The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.
~ Vince Cable
I'm a little angry in life.
~ Vincent Cassel
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
~ Will Eisner
Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
~ Will Rogers
I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.
~ Frida Kahlo
An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.
~ Geoff Dyer
Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties
~ George Washington
Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?
~ Hans Selye
I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like.
~ Harrison Ford
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
~ Hermann Hesse
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
~ Honore de Balzac
A free ride is life's most difficult journey.
~ James Cook