Quotes About Struggle

On découvrait le "nouveau roman", Butor, Robbe-Grillet, Sollers, Sarraute, on voulait l'aimer mais on ne trouvait pas en lui assez de secours pour vivre.

Le couple, assez fortuné, logeait dans un vieil hôtel chic, P. et moi dans une petite pension. Nous faisions peu l'amour, et rapidement, ne profitant pas de l'avantage que procurait mon état – le mal était fait – pas plus sans doute que le chômeur ne profite du temps et de la liberté que lui accorde l'absence de travail, ou le malade perdu de la permission de manger et boire de tout.

Little birds of thought die in her throat.

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Writing. Opening a vein in your wrist with a spoon.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

She wonders when it was that she began to despair. All these years she mistook it for pious resignation. Now she sees the difference. Such a fine line between a state of grace and a state of mortal sin. What is the good of believing fervently in God if you wind up hating Him?

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

The Presence of the demon keeps the chakra from doing its job, but that challenge also forces us to bring more awareness to that job, so eventually we can do it better.

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

And remember that behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry.

It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing milk bone underwear.

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

When all you've done is work toward being a professional athlete, and then you injure yourself, and you know that you're going to be out for a while, it's gut-wrenching. It almost feels like your life is over because that's all you've ever worked for.

I'm a successful professional athlete, and whatever I'm going through in my private life would never impact my performance on court.

You have to deal with a lot of things when you are a professional football player, and that is not so easy.

I was fighting a war on two fronts. I was fighting the best defenses in professional football and I was fighting the media. At that level you just cannot do that. You just cannot do it. I couldn't stop it, and I didn't try to stop it.

I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.

Steppenwolf has always been at the center of everything in my professional life.