Quotes About Struggle

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull How do you hang on to someone who won't stay And how do you get rid of someone who won't go

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

I wasn't the easiest guy to live with. I had multiple personalities, but what bothered her was that none of them made any money.

For National Socialism saw itself as the final realization of human evolution in the most unfeelingly raw and Darwinian form. "Everything in life is struggle," said Himmler. "Everything is selection. That which survives in the final analysis through the centuries is always the better and the stronger.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.

Oh how the family affections combat Within this heart, and each hour flings a bomb at My burning soul! Neither from owl nor from bat Can peace be gained until I clasp my wombat.

Sports are not for everyone.

La mayor parte de los hombres encuentran dificil la virtud. Les resulta mas simple sentir miedo.

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

Quel peuple!" Ils sont tellement habitués à chercher la vie dans des conditions difficiles qu'ils porteront l'espérance jusqu'en enfer.

Conosco un paese che ha provocato ben due guerre mondiali in un secolo e ha proposto una «soluzione finale», e nessuno lo ha mai definito maledetto. Conosco un paese insensibile alla disperazione umana, che continua a ridurre alla fame l'intero pianeta forte del suo strapotere finanziario, e nessuno lo definisce maledetto. Anzi, si presenta al mondo come il popolo benedetto dagli dèi, o meglio da Dio. Allora perché mai Haiti dovrebbe essere maledetta?

Toujours trop d'espoir devant soi. Et trop de déceptions derrière soi. La vie est ce long ruban qui se déroule sans temps morts et dans un mouvement souple qui alterne espoir et déception.

In those years, I felt myself to be incomplete—a gray blur, a body in motion, forever galloping toward completion—half a girl, half-caste, half-mast, and half-baked, not quite ready for consumption.

He seemed particularly insistent. I both did and didn't want to be left alone at the house with my mother. There was an aching in my chest that surprised me, and my eyes were watering up against my will.

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow, that something kept her from ever fully bridging the gap between who she was and who all these other people, making their way through the very same day, were.

The power of persistence is required especially when we're dealing with intense, emotionally devastating circumstances or bunches of hugely difficult things that have stacked up all at once. When you're facing a diagnosis of Graves' disease, a taxi accident, and the imminent death of your sister, and your boyfriend has just moved to Japan, you will definitely need to call on persistence.

Being high felt as if half of me was wandering lost in the streets and half of me was calling out, hoping that I'd make it back before someone took advantage.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. —ALBERT CAMUS