Quotes About Struggle

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner... Yeah? Please don't hesitate to get lost.

Funny, how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

Time," said Arthur weakly, "is not currently one of my problems.

The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying.

Freedom, he said out loud... I can't cope with it..

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

People often ask where I get my ideas from, sometimes as often as eighty-seven times a day. This is a well-known hazard for writers, and the correct response to the question is first to breathe deeply, steady your heartbeat, fill your mind with peaceful, calming images of birdsong and buttercups in spring meadows, and then try to say, It's very interesting you ask that... before breaking down and start to whimper uncontrollably.

Beyinlerinin bu karanl?k ve kilitli köÅŸelerinden kurtulabilmeyi isterdi, çünkü burada sakl? olanlar arada s?rada bir an için yüzeye ç?k?yor, zihninin neÅŸe ve eÄŸlence bölümünü tuhaf düÅŸüncelerle doldurarak, kendisini hayat?n?n temel görevi olarak gördüÄŸü ÅŸeyden, yani harika bir ÅŸekilde iyi zaman geçirmekten al?koymaya çal???yorlard?.

Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets of grief at a time, because the whole thing was too great to be borne.

He was trying to marshal his arguments for proving that he did not now constitute a mental-health hazard himself. He was far from certain about this – his mind seemed to be full of noise, horses, smoke, and the stench of blood.

So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan, and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight—the locals wouldn't stand a chance.

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

We called ourselves The Reasonably Good Band, but in fact we weren't. Our intention was to be the Beatles of the early eighties, but we got much better financial and legal advice than the Beatles ever did, which was basically 'Don't bother,' so we didn't. I left Cambridge and starved for three years.

As she lay beneath a pile of rubble, in pain, darkness, and choking dust, trying to find sensation in her limbs, she was at least relieved to be able to think that she hadn't merely been imagining that this was a bad day. So thinking, she passed out.

maladjusted, socially isolated, sad, hunched, emotional cripple.