Quotes About Struggle

As Rilke says, there are no classes for beginners in life, the most difficult thing is always asked of one right away.

A great novel is the record of how a character fights with death.

Sometimes writing a novel feels about as rewarding as turning a spit in the fires of hell.

If you're still stuck, re-watch Misery and imagine that your number one fan insists that you finish by the end of the month.

I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead

Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself. It

When I told my mother the extremes I went to in order to make a living, she just shook her head and said, "Now don't you wish you'd finished college, dear?" Mother's are so wise, sometimes.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again

Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.

I hate that I have to spend half my life doing a job I hate for a boss I can't stand.' 'Haha, yeah, we live in a society.' 'The point isn't that we live in it, but that we built it. And we could just have easily built it differently.

That's the closest you're going to get to a compliment from her," noted Jarreau. "And all I had to do was nearly kill myself." Jensen took another draw on his cigarette. "How is Interpol gonna deal with all this?

It is not the descent toward the shadow nor the rise toward the light that makes us superior, it is the endless struggle between the two where greatness of character resides." - Sanguinius

We can't afford to let the Illuminati have another victory, Janus.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

He had a picture in his mind of Studs Lonigan courageously telling life and the world to stick itself up it's old tomato.

Ever since he had been a kid, he had wished and waited, and there had been no change except for the worst.

The ubiquity of alcoholism in Chelsea and neighboring Irish waterfront communities can scarcely be overstated:

He is being nibbled to death by ducks. --More Later, Less the Same

My head cocked toward the sky, I cannot get off the ground, and, you passing over again, fast, perfect, and unwilling to tell me that you are doing well, or that it was mistake that placed you in that world, and me in this; or that misfortune placed these worlds in us.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Probably the most honest "self-made man" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way — fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."