Quotes About Struggle

we can win the war—make no mistake about that—but only if we don't lose it first. And the danger of losing it comes, not from outside—not from the might of Germany's bombers, not from her seizure of neutral countries and fresh vantage points from which to attack—but from within.

I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate . Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you. - Old Man Charles

To have known, at close quarters, what absolute evil means, is to be armoured against what life can do to you.

I can't really go along with this modern playing down of evil as something that doesn't really exist. There is evil. And evil is powerful. Sometimes more powerful than good. It's there. It has to be recognised – and fought. Otherwise -' he spread out his hands.'We go down to darkness

Yarg?daki deneyimim bana Tanr?'n?n, inanç, suç ve ceza gibi konular? biz ölümlülere b?rakt???n? ö?retti. Bunlar da uzun, zor süreçler. Kestirme yolu da yok.

But you can figure to yourself, monsieur, that a man may work towards a certain object, may labour and toil to attain a certain kind of leisure and occupation, and then find that, after all, he yearns for the old busy days, and the old occupations that he thought himself so glad to leave?

Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals - and the process is often fraught with difficulties, There are short cuts.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

Her qualities were all excellent qualities, but sometimes Edward wished that she had more faults and less virtues. It was her virtues that drove him to desperate deeds.

Lawrence lived in the midst of an artistic disarray that would have driven me quite mad.

There is always, of course, that terrible three weeks, or a month, which you have to get through when you are trying to get started on a book. There is no agony like it. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off . . . .

if you're born on the wrong side of the wall, I can't see that it's wrong to climb over it.

It is hard when you are twenty-four years of age, and your one ambition in life is to reduce your handicap at golf, to be forced to give time and attention to the problem of earning your living.

Writing's not particularly enjoyable. It's hard work like everything else.

And you must remember that anyone who's mentally unhinged has a good deal of unsuspected strength.

Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals—and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.

His hands were shaking and his face was twitching. He looked a wreck of a man.

It is not so simple as it seems," he ended. "There is the desire for power and very often a strong inferiority complex.

Burnt corks they use mostly—though 'tis messy getting it off again. Miss Cynthia was a Negress once, and, oh, the trouble she had.

Civilized misery, she thought, is the worse misery. Grey and hopeless. But now she thought, I shall escape.

We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

I am become a hard, thankless, graceless girl, and it was the only way I could do it.

Aldrig mer kärlek. Enda utvägen: göra sig ogenomsläpplig. Man kan inte bara låta sig försvinna i ett slukhål. Man måste upprätta en demarkationslinje mot detta som är en sjukdom som får en att mista all kontroll.