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Quotes About Struggle

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.
~ Vladimir Putin
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don't suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
~ Cassandra Clare
...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans
~ Chris Rose
Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
~ Dorothea Lange
Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.
~ Dorothee Solle
Funny, how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
~ Douglas Adams
It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.
~ Dylan Thomas
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
~ Ellen Glasgow
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.
~ Eric Hoffer
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
~ Ernestine Rose
I just can't get used to life.
~ Eugene Ionesco
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
~ Eugenio Montale
But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.
~ Evel Knievel
I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
If life were stable, I'd never need God's help.
~ Francis Chan
I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.
~ Francis Chan
That's life (that's life), that's what all the people say You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May But I know I'm gonna change that tune When I'm back on top, back on top in June
~ Frank Sinatra
Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.
~ Maya Rudolph
You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.
~ Michael Owen
If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.
~ Michel Houellebecq
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.
~ Nancy Friday
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.
~ Ned Vizzini