Quotes About Struggle

It was generally known, there was an epidemic of suicide among former soldiers.

For the wanting to be good,in defiance of justice, is one of mankind's greatest weaknesses.

What a barbaric way to rise into the air, hauling your own carcass up inches at a time.

No has fracasado, aunque no hayas estado a la altura de la exaltada idea que tienes de ti misma.

Si hubiera podido, habría echado a Warren a patadas y se habría quedado con Norma Jeane. Pero, naturalmente, no podía hacerlo. Vivimos en un mundo de hombres y una mujer debe traicionar a sus congéneres para sobrevivir.

There is a carpet, or a strip of something, that I am walking on...and it is being rolled up behind me. So that there is only the strip I am walking on, with nothing in front or behind me. Sometimes, I am so very tired - but there is no place to rest.

En el Exilio te agarras a lo que tienes, a lo que no te han quitado (todavía).

A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In

Es corriente entre las víctimas de violación, sea hombre o mujer, evitar los espejos y la confrontación directa con todas las imágenes de "sí mismas". Como si donde había habido una persona, ahora no hubiera nadie.»

The fetus wished to live. Stubbornly, sometimes astonishingly-the fetus struggled to live. But the power of its life-or its death-had to reside with the mother. No other alternative was possible.

Joyce Carol Oates

No ha sucedido nada que tú no quisieras y pidieras. »Así que cierra el pico. ¿Entendido?» La había zarandeado, con fuerza. Para que dejara de llorar, de sollozar. De atragantarse y vomitar. El hedor que impregnaba su coche le puso furioso.

no one knew what to do with Ariah Erskine, who refused to behave as others wished her to behave.

Katya stood in the doorway at the rear of Mr Kidder's studio and could not seem to step out onto the terrace and run away. Panting like a dog that has been trained by his master and can't break out of his training, though his training has hurt, humbled, humiliated him and enslaved him.

Yet within seconds she summoned her steely will, this will that so impressed Dirk Burnaby, for he'd never encountered anything like it in his life, establishing where she was, and why. The bad dream was outside her, in the world. She must conquer it there or nowhere.

To destroy evil we must destroy the being which evil inhabits, even if it is ourselves.

The man is too narcissistic, too shallow and cowardly for suicide. Days

Labor was the right word for it. You surely do labor. Like pushing a wagon loaded with cement blocks uphill, three wheels stuck. Grunting, sweating, straining like a sow to give birth as it's called.

Nothing is more lonely than fucking 'good works.

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

I still remember typing the title page on my manual Smith-Corona with clammy hands and a racing heart. When I came to the words, A novel by Joyce Elbert, I heard the New York Philharmonic break into Wagnerian praise for a major new literary voice, yet seconds later doubt and insecurity had crept in.

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

She felt everything so deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

tragedy and death would follow a person whereever he went in life. There was no such thing as escape, except maybe the kind that Mr. Kirby had accomplished...