Quotes About Struggle

It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

Some are lapped in night, where all things are undone.

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

Trouble, with its memories of pain, drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, so men against their will learn to practice moderation.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Alas, I am struck a deep mortal blow!

Do not kick against the pricks.

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Exiles feed on hope.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

The great do not always prevail.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Every moment that a man may be in want of employment, than such I hold him to be far better who is forced to labour for nothing.

Mademoiselle, I beseech you, do not do what you are doing." "Leave dear Linnet alone, you mean!" "It is deeper than that. Do not open your heart to evil." Her lips fell apart; a look of bewilderment came into her eyes. Poirot went on gravely: "Because—if you do—evil will come…Yes, very surely evil will come…It will enter in and make its home within you, and after a little while it will no longer be possible to drive it out.

Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money—or the lack of it.

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One does not live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead,' don't want to die! People who apparently have got everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they have not got the energy to fight.

Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage." "To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does." "Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage.