Quotes About Struggle

No pasa nada querido –susurro Gabby – No tengas miedo. Estas acostumbrado a arrebatar las cosas, eso es todo. Nadie te dio nunca nada»

La vida es carácter. Carácter es conflicto. Conflicto es vida. Ese es el círculo vicioso en que todos estamos encerrados. También tú»

no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

Alt?n bir çaÄŸ yaÅŸan?yordu; benzersiz maceralar, zengin yaÅŸam ve zor ölüm devriydi bu . . . ama kimse öyle düÅŸünmüyordu. Servet ve h?rs?zl?kla, yaÄŸma ve çapulculukla, kültür ve ahlaks?zl?kla dolu bir gelecekti bu . . . ama kimse bunu kabul etmiyordu. A??r?l?klar?n ça??yd?, hilkat garibelerinin büyüleyici yüzy?l? . . . ama kimse bundan hoÅŸlanm?yordu.

Foyle was brought up with a jolt. 'You mean I've been running away from something?' 'Obviously.' 'From what?' 'From reality. You can't accept life as it is. You refuse. You attack it . . . try to force it into your own pattern. You attack and destroy everything that stands in the way of your own insane pattern.

Let me die, for God's sake!' 'What's the matter? Does it hurt? I died for six months, and I didn't whine.

The highest places are always slippery: Men's eyes dazzle when they are carried up to them; and falls from them are mortal. Few kings or tyrants, says Juvenal, go down to the grave in peace...

do you or don't you know the two worlds I'm talking about, the world that doesn't exist where you wish you could be on the dirt road that stretches out of Idaho away from the cave and family? The girl you want lives there. All my life I've wanted to be the grand gesture that forces the mouth open in disbelief Instead I was the lamp cord, collecting dust and never moving. It's easy to be the destroyed one.

These days, we are closer to the gnarled

Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person? On the outs with the rest of the world. Someone who sat alone in the cafeteria, reading, escaping from his hometown simply by turning the page.

You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.

The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep, those haunted by one thing or another: love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

He has stumbled into love, and now he's stuck there. He's fairly used to not getting what he wants, and he's dealt with it, yet he can't help but wonder if that's only because he didn't want anything too badly.

But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from their true nature.

Your grief won't go away; it's not a door you can close,or a book you can put back on the shelf,or a kiss you can give back once it's given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.

My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.

Life is beautiful, just very unfair.