Quotes About Struggle

So some of him lived but most of him died. (The Vampire)

Or ever the knightly years were gone      With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon      And you were a Christian slave,         ââ'¬â€W.E. Henley. His

Harriet was silent, thinking, and then she said, It is too hard to be a person. You don't only have to go on and on. You have to be-- she looked for the word she needed and could not find it. Then, You have to be tall as well, said Harriet.

Not really a demon; not really human. I'm not either. That's all. There was no place for me, so I had to find one myself. And then I realized. I had a place, but I was the only one in it. I didn't know any other way to live.- InuYasha

Naraku holds my life in his hands. But I have no intention of remaining a servant forever to the likes of him! I am the wind. One day I shall be free!

Forgive me, it's hard to control myself around such beauties.- Miroku

Please, body, hold fast until I can complete my final task.- Sango

Because it's anger that drives us and delivers us. It's not any kind of love either-love for the underdog or the victim, or whatever you want to call them. Some litigators like to claim that. The losers.

In some countries, I said to myself, the only life you can properly desire is that of destroyer.

I kept driving straight on toward what we called home and could not say aloud the words that were thrashing me, as if somehow by remaining silent I could keep the terrible thing from having occurred.

Father took race to be the central and inescapable fact of American life and character, and thus he did not apologize for its being the central fact of his own life and character.

Florida from its beginnings has served as a catch basin for the world's detritus. It's where you go when your prospects elsewhere have ended, and you've not yet settled into despair, and you still think there's a slight chance you can start over, and no one will notice your previous failings or hold them against you while you gather your bearings and begin again.

Let the soil here below stink and turn to a scarlet muck, and let us crawl through it until our mouths and nostrils fill with it and we drown in it with our hands on each other's throats—I no longer resist this war. I relish it.

Before you lose your children, you can talk about it-as a possibility, I mean [...] But when the thing that you only imagined actually happens, you quickly discover that you can barely speak of it. Your story is jumbled and mumbled, out of sync and unfocused. At least that's how it has been for me.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

He grew morose, and felt himself half overcome by funk

The race of man haunted by the thought of what it used to be, ashamed of what they are, afraid of what they were.

sharna pax and hed on a poal when the ardship of Cambry come out of his hoal

only my art held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt was within me, and so I spared this wretched life.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

wriggled to avoid the lump that always seemed directly under

You can't do anything with a man whose mind is gone.

Raquela stood at her side. "Your baby was stillborn. But you're all right." The mother screamed, "Even this they deny me! They take away my land. My freedom. Now my baby. Let me die. I want to die.

Thirty-nine. A widow. Trying to fill her sons' needs. Trying to be both mother and father. Careful not to demand too much of the boys.