Quotes About Struggle

It was a crude and unsophisticated country, she thought, always lurching from crisis to crisis, seemingly unaware of the fact its power was fading.

hamartia in his character. The fatal flaw

face she could scarcely recall, the alcoholic brother who'd never worked a day in his life—but everything

The cruelty of the desert had influenced the faith.

To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept away. We went from superpower to basket case overnight.

I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves" — Edgar Allan Poe

always felt them to be something to cope and contend with, to navigate around, rather than as individuals to get to know and to play with.

En la vida no se obtiene lo que se merece, sino lo que se sabe negociar, o lo que el destino depara.

los envidiosos te envidian hasta la miseria.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Whatever are we to do about you, baby girl? Huh?' 'Kill me, I guess.' 'That idea has been said already. Got'ny other ones?' 'Help me. Ain't nobody said that idea yet, have they?

I ain't shit! I ain't shit! shouts your brain, and this place proves the point.

He's got that 'born to lose and lose violently' air about him. That's good.

I reckon I always had been huntin' for a place to plant my feet and go down swinging.

You know, I'm very near to bein' normal, but I just can't get over the hump." "Well

I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol.

As the ample Hedda, who disguised her ampleness behind a billow of yellow summer dress, told it, her life up 'til she hoisted this very bloody mary in her hand was a convoluted tale of bubbly love gone flat, fine talents unnoticed and similarly woeful bullshit.

On this day I saw a three-legged buck, with battered antlers and worn fur, drag off through the woods. The proud stag lived on but, crippled up and worn, he would soon feed other beasts.

This must always be admitted of us—for desperate dash and cruelty we were unbettered men.

The universe sometimes makes war seem a mere chigger in comparison, but that is in no way soothing to one who has the itch.

Nobody here wants to be awful," he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. "It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.

God, sometimes I am tempted to think I will never have peace or calm in my home or my heart. When life gets noisy and wild, remind me of the peaceful bliss that awaits us all in heaven. Act

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it,

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it," Ava used to say, quoting Coelho. Now