Quotes About Struggle

In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerablle to temptation. (Mr. Barnes)

Wherever there is human nature, there is drama.

She had a great power of love and hate but no stability. That's what's so sad for anyone, to be born with no stability.

I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.

He felt lost without his hatred–lost and afraid. About Mickey Argyle

That's the depressing part of places like this. Guest houses run by broken-down gentlepeople. They're full of failures—of people who have never got anywhere and never will get anywhere, of people who—who have been defeated and broken by life, of people who are old and tired and finished.

Things never burn when you want them to, they got out. You'd probably have had to strike match after match.

It will prove, I fear, too Herculean a task for us.

If only father would be decent and die, I should be all right.

The other two waited respectfully while M. Bouc struggled in mental agony.

Life is a difficult business... It needs infinite courage and a lot of endurance. And in the end one wonders: 'Was it worth while?' - Mrs. Lorrimer, Cards on the Table

One's body is a nuisance, M. Poirot, especially when it gets the upper hand. One is conscious of nothing else-- whether the pain will hold off or not--nothing else seems to matter.

She didn't want to die. She couldn't imagine wanting to die…Death was for—for other people.

suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one might get like that. One might run away from reality into a half world of one's own and then, of course, after a time, one wouldn't be able to get back...

Belki de kurtulmak ne demektir bilmiyorsun.' Vera, 'Kurtulmak m??' diye hayretle sordu. 'Henüz çok gençsin... Bu duyguyu henüz tan?m?yorsun. Ama s?rt?ndaki a??r yükü ta??maktan yoruldu?unda, kurtulmak isteyeceksin. Bunu sen de bir gün hissedeceksin mutlaka.

Was that really and truly what people were secretly feeling everywhere? Was that what, ultimately, war did to you? It was not the physical dangers—the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think…

for a minute her good-natured blue eyes were hard and sharp; she was the female fighting for existence—"that

Life is very trying.

Because people like living, don't they? So do flies. Even if you're old and in pain and can just crawl out in the sun. Julian says those people like living even more than young strong people do. It's harder, he says, for them to die, the struggle's greater. I like living myself—not just being happy and enjoying myself and having a good time. I mean living—waking up and feeling, all over me, that I'm there—ticking over.

As a rich property owner says 'Bolsheviks' - as an earnest Communist says 'Capitalists! ' - as a good housewife says 'Blackbeetles' - so did Miss Williams say 'Men!' From her spinster's, governess's life, there rose up a blast of fierce feminism. Nobody hearing her speak could doubt that to Miss Williams Men were the Enemy!

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope.

It's been going on a long time. I can tell you it's a difficult thing to go on really liking a man who can do everything just a little bit better than you can. Burnaby was a narrow-minded, small-natured man. He let it get on his nerves.

On the slightly apoplectic countenance of Major Barry various emotions seemed contending for mastery.

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