Quotes About Struggle

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

I've been dealing with being overlooked my whole life.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.

You could say that my life's a mess. But, I'm still looking pretty in this dress.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.