Quotes About Struggle

When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.

I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.

I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort from my story and for those who don't suffer from anxiety disorders gain some understanding.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again.

I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.

Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.

You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.

I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.

When I am not playing, I suffer.

I watched my mom suffer from a divorce where she depended on my father.

I see, in this life, the hardship many suffer. I see the joy that music can give. How we deal with all this is part of a preparation for the next life.

Children of domestic violence, of course, suffer terrible consequences.

Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their poverty was their own fault and, to demonstrate that, if you're not up to mark then you're sanctioned and the money stops.

I asked why me? Why did I have to suffer so much pain and scars? I was just a little girl - I didn't do anything wrong.

As I tried to put the pieces of my life and that of my children back together, I returned to my very public job, but continued to suffer in private.

I wish 'Jal' could re-release so that the people could watch it and know how people from Rajasthan and other drought-affected areas suffer.

When you make a mistake, and the team is not doing well in defence, then the centre-backs and the 'keeper suffer more than the others.

When you want to win, you are doomed to suffer conflicts.