Quotes About Struggle

On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

You have to celebrate the gifts because life is so hard and I think once you realize life's gonna be hard, the good stuff really comes forward.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

Having a life is easy. Having a career is hard to come by.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

My desolation does begin to make A better life.

If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

I think drugs and alcohol aren't a wrestling problem, it's a life problem, it's a people problem.

A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.