Quotes About Struggle

el principio de la infinita pérdida, el comienzo de ese imparable decaer que era el vivir.

Os acostumados á desgracia, chegan a contar por súas as que afrixen aos demais.

The rights that women had won through the long century and more of struggle were essentially rights of men. Women had had no option but to batter their way into the age-old fortress of male privilege, and storm the citadel where masculine supremacy still held out.

Women have had to learn, often painfully and always with reluctance, that their freedom will not simply come of its own accord.

Women have always fought not just for survival, but for the meaning of the struggle - now, they are organizing, grouping and pushing forward, not merely for new definitions, but for the right to define.

Her family... Love and involvement brought joy, but as well could become a hideously heavy millstone slung about one's neck. And the worst was that she felt useless because there was not a mortal thing she could do to help resolve their problems.

Uncertainty is always hell.

There was, Julia Prescott decided, only the finest razor-edge between depression and despair. Depression had been constant for weeks, familiar, creeping up on her like a prowler in tennis shoes. But despair was the dreaded spectre behind the closed door, springing forth just when you least expected it. ['Through the Eyes of Love']

my time pulling up the beastly things.

She could not take her heart or trust with her. Chad had stolen both. It still hurt deeply to think about it, but it was done now, and she doubted she could ever love or trust a man again, let alone ever find it in her heart to forgive.

he hated the constant danger of Indian attack; but being here was better than being in jail back in New Orleans for robbery and assault.

Sometimes the sorrow deep inside can slowly kill as surely as disease or hunger.

Pero Rominka no quería morir, no quería enloquecer. Los hijos, aún balbucientes la reclamaban. El marido la quería. Y su propia carne, no importaba si marchita, si enferma, pero viva, se estremecía de terror ante la amenaza.

La hazaña de convertirse en lo que se es exige no únicamente el descubrimiento de los rasgos esenciales bajo el acicate de la pasión, de la insatisfacción, del hastío sino sobre todo el rechazo de estas falsas imágenes, que los falsos espejos ofrecen a la mujer en las cerradas galerías donde su vida transcurre.

I write because I am poorly adjusted to reality. (The Writer's Kitchen)

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

Kabullenmenin hayat?n öÄŸrettiÄŸi en a??r ve en zor ders olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüyordu.

He saw only that misery could be endured in the midst of misery. But set adjacent to the good fortune of others, it became far, far harder to bear.

All life, he thought as he tugged at the boulder, is a flight from mistake to mistake.

So then Joseph knew that he had no idea how to escape from the darkness closing round him, unless it might be to engineer his own death,...

and Pao Yi was reminded that the inclination of almost every living thing is to cling on, to remain where it is, but that his own inclination -his own nature- suspended him always in a kind of no-man's-land between remaining and leaving.

He appears to Paul like an old man, choking up with half-remembered things, as though there were a great struggle going on inside him to find, in among all that was half-remembered, those moments which had been absolute and true.

A man can travel too far from his point of departure and become lost and never find his way back. All that remains to him then is to keep moving forward and pray that hope does not desert him too.

For what's the point in thinking about an end to your present sorrows, when you're a prisoner of events, a prisoner of time.