Quotes About Struggle

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.

In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough.

Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.