Quotes About Struggle

No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be.

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

The place where you came from ain't there any more, and where you had in mind to go is cancelled out. This place you are now—inside your daddy's house—is nothing but a cardboard box I can knock down any time. You know that and always did know it. You hear me?

I could wish that I had recourse to the Prince of Darkness & his quick ways of revenge;

Maybe he'd been mistaken, trying so hard to make his wife and young children happy. Maybe it's always a mistake, trying to assure the happiness of others.

It is a terrible thing to feel that you might break down, you might utter a confession that could not then be retrieved.

If I could open a vein. Not to inject any shit, I will never weaken like that again, but just to feel the kick of it, the old memory. So this numbness lifts. So I could get back there easier.

Derailed. In exile. Deeply ashamed, despised. Yet she had so little pride, she was grateful most days simply to be alive. There is Minimalist art; there are minimalist lives.

Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am furious as I was rarely—perhaps never—furious with him, in life. How can I forgive you, you've ruined both our lives.

Like the philosophy credited to Jack Dempsey: The more punches a man takes, the closer he is to the end. Because a man has only a fixed number of punches he can take in his lifetime. "Pa?

It was a very American story, somehow. 'Lost.' Each community had such stories. Possibly, each family.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

The hard part of humanity is history. All that's been done to human beings by other human beings. In the Rocky River Nature Preserve you didn't have to think of such things.

He thinks: He could give up. He could admit defeat. But he will not admit defeat. He is still alive.

I have no talent, no gift. I have the panting ardor of a workhorse. Yet in time even a workhorse wears out.

It was hard not to exude the air of a martyr, if one did just slightly more than the other, as it seemed Mickey frequently did.

It is very hard to prevail where you are not, in the deepest and most intimate and forgiving of ways, loved. It is very hard to prevail in any case but without this love, it is close to impossible.

he'd come to earth. Hard.

happened to you! what happened

You wear out. You see too much. Every breath hurts. The

She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her. She'd never loved any man, she was a good girl but she would love that man if it would save her.

Ariah struck suddenly at her face with both fists. She wanted to pummel, blacken her eyes that had seen too much.

Della riendo, diciendo entre jadeos: «¿De qué vale ser una perdida y una puta si a los treinta años no tienes nada?». Y a Norma Jeane le faltaban

I am snatching at things to prove my life.