Quotes About Struggle

beating back the tide

So we beat on boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

One thing's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get—children.

What are you looking at? I was just thinking that you're going to be rather happy. Nicole was frightened: Am I? All right--things couldn't be worse than they have been.

He was born sleepless without a talent for rest or the desire for it. --Cecelia Brady about Stahr

Gatsby croyait en la lumière verte, en l'extatique avenir qui d'année en année recule devant nous. Il nous a échappé ! Qu'importe ! Demain nous courrons plus vite, nos bras s'étendront plus loin... Et un beau matin... C'est ainsi que nous avançons, barques luttant contre un courant qui nous rejette sans cesse vers le passé.

I'm going to start being that. I don't like being twenty-two. I hate it more than anything in the world.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

superior couples holding each other tortuously

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away.

Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything.

Y así seguimos nuestro camino: botes que reman contra la corriente, incesantemente arrastrados hacia el pasado.

There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scenes...

Men don't know how to be really angry or really happy—and the ones that do, go to pieces.

I can do the one hundred things beyond the next thing, but I stub my toe on that

Wann immer du an jemandem etwas auszusetzen hast, sagte er, vergiss nicht, dass nicht alle auf dieser Welt einen so leichten Start hatten wie du.

It's just us. We're pitiful, that's all. The very qualities I love you for are the ones that will always make you a failure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

They had senselessly begun to abuse each other's love, tear it into shreds.

Life was a damned muddle . . . a football game with every one off-side and the referee gotten rid of—every one claiming the referee would have been on his side. . . .

Going to take a room at the Commodore, get into a hot bath and open a vein.

O Gatsby acreditava na luz verde, no orgíaco futuro que, ano após ano, foge e recua diante de nós. Se hoje nos iludiu, pouco importa: amanhã correremos mais depressa, alongaremos mais os braços...Até que uma bela manhã... Assim vamos teimando, proas contra a corrente, incessantemente cortando as águas, a caminho do passado.

Et nous luttons ainsi, barques à contre-courant, refoulés sans fin vers notre passé.

Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man.