Quotes About Struggle

Friedman described the situation in 1963 in these epigrammatic terms: "to the Negro demand for 'now,' to which the Deep South has replied 'never,' many liberal whites are increasingly responding 'later.

As ethnic groups struggle to be a part of the mainstream, they are often forced to make a place for themselves by serving the interests of the state.

Be-basi hain ek chuban si hain Khush hain par ek ghutan si hain

Duniya ne kaha kabhi kisi ko khuch diya hain jo diya hain woh bhi chin liya hain

Ek umar guzar gayi ghar ke jhagdho mein Phir duniya ne bhi jeena muhaal kar diya

Himmat kar,sabar kar bhikar kar bhi nikhar jaaega Yakeen kar shukar kar,waqt hain guzar jaaega —Wajid shaikh

Tum gairo se toh jeet jaaoge par apno se haar jaaoge

Yeh shehar ki aawargi ki zindagi ki kashmakash insaan nafrat mein ji kar mohbhatt se mar jaata hain

I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2 000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.

They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.

One evening I pulled Beauty down on my knees. I found her embittered and I cursed her.

These two forces of love, one selfish and self-seeking, the other charitable ( caritas ) and loving, continue to struggle with one another for domination in a man's soul.

It seems undeniable that once it beings, violence leads us into some sort of madness, some terrifying maze inside the mind in which we become lost, and we don't know what's happening or what we ourselves are doing.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.

It reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonable well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.

Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential.

Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition.

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he's far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can't afford self-doubt and he can't let other people's opinions, even a father's, keep him from writing.

There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill.

Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization.

The writers I admired and still admire were not carpenters, but more like sculptors. Their art was and is a real probing of real and troubling human confusions.

She will burn bright until she goes out; she will go on standing on tiptoe till she falls.

Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.