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Quotes About Struggle

Hade hon varit uppriktig hade hon sagt att hon ville slippa leva. Inte direkt dö, bara slippa leva.
~ Agneta Pleijel
I kampen mellan dig och världen, ställ dig på världens sida.
~ Agneta Pleijel
Hélas, la vie calme et tranquille que je m'étais imaginée s'est très vite transformée en enfer.
~ Agota Kristof, La preuve
Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted
~ Aharon Appelfeld
Since they were unable to liberate themselves from the old words and the fear, they prowled the streets and cast their angry shadows.
~ Aharon Appelfeld
Había días en que las pesadillas lo perseguían, y por la mañana se levantaba y no recordaba nada. Ya había aprendido que un sueño que se olvida por la mañana no desaparece, se esconde y escarba en secreto, y que hay sueños olvidados que salen a la superficie en mitad del día.
~ Aharon Appelfeld
Il pericolo era grande, ma eravamo pronti a rischiare e nascondemmo il bambino dentro una cassa. Di notte toglievamo il coperchio per dargli da bere e da mangiare. Durante quell'autunno il pensiero di avere un bambino nella baracca cambiò la nostra vita: facevamo a gara a chi gli avrebbe dato la propria razione. Ciascuno di noi lottava per offrirgliela.
~ Aharon Appelfeld
Young people, they must struggle. If they don't strugglethey think life has no meaning. They feel lost. You see -' to Isabel - 'in countries where there is no need to struggle - in Norway, in Sweden - the young people kill themselves.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
This is now our life's work: we will create the Egypt they died for.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
He stands his ground but she can see him collapse. He looks like a man in a film the moment after he's been shot and before he falls to the ground -
~ Ahdaf Soueif
What's twenty years, fifty years in the life of Egypt? As long as some of us hold on and do what we can.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
But she was not able to bring him peace of mind. It was as though he was angry that his happy private life should exist within the public circumstances that he hated. Or as though he longed that his personal happiness should extend to encompass all of Egypt.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
Islam will win with or without you, but without islam you will get lost and lose
~ Ahmed Deedat
At the end of the day everybody is doing what they can to get by
~ Ahmed Korayem
Desperate times calls for more than simply desperate measures. It calls for putting one's values aside till the desperation subsides" --Mental Hell, Chapter 3
~ Ahmed Korayem
Desperate times calls for rambunctious behavior" -Mental Hell
~ Ahmed Korayem
Lord save me from the minds that are plagued by good intentions
~ Ahmed Korayem
Lord save me from this abomination that I have to face in the mirror each and everyday
~ Ahmed Korayem
One can't get upset at the dying fields when he is constantly warring with the rain clouds
~ Ahmed Korayem
So many ways to hell and only one leading to heaven. It truly takes a Divine force to keep an imbalanced universe such as this one from collapsing in on itself
~ Ahmed Korayem
The more resistant we are to the oncoming chaos, the more we will be stuck in a constant struggle and are unable to move forward. One must embrace the chaos in open arms and once the self-destruction ensues, then self-development can follow. One can't get upset at the dying fields when he is constantly warring with the rain clouds
~ Ahmed Korayem
Arday kastaa waa inuu laba mid uun doortaa, xanuunka edbinta nafta, ama xanuunka qoomamaynta wakhtiyadii uu daayacay.
~ Ahmed Omaar
La dagaalanka rabitaanka naftu, waa furaha guusha ardayga.
~ Ahmed Omaar
When Allah had made the rest of the world, He saw that there was a lot of rubbish left over, bits and pieces and things that did not fit anywhere else. He collected them all together and threw them down on to the earth. That was Afghanistan
~ Ahmed Rashid