Quotes About Struggle

Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.

Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.

Sometimes, when things are confusing, we try and make sense of it our own way; we find ways of coping up.

One way or another he was going out in two weeks, and God help me, I wanted to protect him. More than that, I wanted to save him.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

Sometimes when I ask people to tell me their story they tell me about their achievements, what they have acquired or built over a lifetime. So many of us do not know our own story. A story about who we are, not what we have done. About what we have faced to build what we have built, what we have drawn upon and risked to do it, what we have felt, thought, feared, and discovered through the events of our lives. The real story that belongs to us alone.

I'd deal with the devil if it meant keeping Cam safe." "Sometimes the devil is the only option, but best to leave it to those of us who have already sold their souls." Valerie didn't laugh.

Oh, yes -- very easy to talk about death, but not so easy to manage the dying.

But even as she struck the bonds seemed to tighten, with each fresh blow to bind more securely. Mary now clung with every fibre of her sorely distressed and outraged being; with every memory that Stephen stirred; with every passion that Stephen had fostered; with every instinct of loyalty that Stephen had aroused to do battle with Martin.

she had not yet learnt that the loneliest place in this world is the no-man's-land of sex.

For together with those who themselves being normal, had long put intellects above bodies, were writers, painters, musicians and scholars, men and women who, set apart from their birth, had determined to hack out a niche in existence.

Nothing appears to succeed like success in a world that is principally made up of failure.

Oh, Stephen, Stephen, get used to the world -- it's a horrible place full of horrible people, but it's all there is, and we live in it, don't we? So we've just got to do as the world does, my Stephen.

she was like some curious, primitive thing conceived in a turbulent age of transition.

I cannot protect you, Mary, the world has deprived me of my right to protect; I am utterly helpless, I can only love you.

one day I am gonna grow wings a chemical reaction hysterical but useless hysterical and a let down

You'd kill yourself for regognition, kill yourself to never ever stop. You broke there mirror, you're turning into something your not.

Limb by limb and tooth by tooth, Tearing up inside of me, Every day, every hour, just wish that I... Was bulletproof

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck.

Won't let the creeping ivy Won't let the nervous bury me Our veins are thin Our rivers poisoned We want the sweet meat We want the young blood

One day I am gonna grow wings A chemical reaction Hysterical and useless Hysterical and Let down and hanging around Crushed like a bug in the ground Let down and hanging around

If you'd been a dog, They would have drowned you at birth.