Quotes About Struggle

Pain, thou art not an evil.

Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life - for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes - I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and consequently free.

When one lives among madmen, one should train as a maniac.

Así como es necesaria la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora, así el infortunio es necesario también para descubrir ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas en la inteligencia humana.

He consigned his unknown persecutors to the most horrible tortures he could imagine, and found them all insufficient, because after torture came death, and after death, if not repose, at least the boon of unconsciousness.

Two methods of self-destruction were at his disposal. He could hang himself with his handkerchief to the window bars, or refuse food and die of starvation. But the first was repugnant to him. Dantes had always entertained the greatest horror of pirates, who are hung up to the yard-arm; he would not die by what seemed an infamous death.

with you, he would have wasted a life that had become useless to him and would have been unable to accustom himself to your grief. The frustration would have filled him with hatred. Now he will become great and strong by struggling against adversities that he will change into good fortune. Let him rebuild the future for both of you, Madame. I can promise that he is in good hands.

You know, Edmond, I am no longer a thinking creature. I have no further resolve except that of never again being resolved about anything. God has so shaken me with storms that I have lost all willpower. I am in His hands, like a sparrow in the claws of an eagle. Since I am alive, He does not want me to die. If He sends me any succour, it will be because He wants it, and I shall accept.

The Imperial throne was occupied by Frederic III, who had been rightly named the Peaceful, not for the reason that he had always maintained peace, but because, having constantly been beaten, he had always been forced to make it.

Ah! j'étais cependant si bien dit-elle; j'étais presque morte.

aquella carrera le resultó beneficiosa en el sentido de que a medida que el sudor inundaba su frente su corazón se enfriaba.

The unfortunates cling to the smallest hopes, as the happy do to the greatest good;

Je suis venu à Paris avec quatre écus dans ma poche, et je me serais battu avec quiconque m'aurait dit que je n'étais pas en état d'acheter le Louvre.

We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

Deus é o derradeiro recurso. O infeliz que deveria começar pelo Senhor, só consegue confiar nele depois de esgotar todas as outras esperanças.

War is a distraction: we gain everything by it; we can only lose one thing by it—life—then so much the worse!

Satan, murmura-t-elle, aide une pauvre reine pour qui Dieu ne veut plus rien faire

The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, and sometimes three.

Woman was created for our ruin, and it is from her that all our miseries come.

A vida é uma tempestade (...) Um dia você está tomando sol e no dia seguinte o mar te lança contra as rochas. O que faz de você um homem é o que você faz quando a tempestade vem.

It was worth while, truly," added the young man with a melancholy smile, "to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.

Rochelle vertrieben.

Poi, gettando un ultimo sguardo su quel bel giovane di venticinque anni appena, che egli lasciava a giacere lì, privo di sentimenti, e forse morto, sospirò sullo strano destino che induce gli uomini a distruggersi gli uni con gli altri nell'interesse di persone estranee, le quali spesso ignorano, di quei loro paladini, perfino l'esistenza.

Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir. Alexandre Dumas, Le comte de Monte-Cristo, chapitre 5