Quotes About Struggle

His dreams were getting more frightful—rising black swirls of water, cars floating by like river bugs—but he didn't know much about how to build a boat. The steam box was a start, even if he couldn't tell Annie, even though the line between faith and becoming unhinged seemed perilously narrow.

She felt like the crushed petals of a violet, dark and limp. No, no, no. She bit her knuckle until she tasted blood. Cy was gone.

And it wasn't as if she could talk about it with Samuel, couldn't even imagine talking about it. Eventually she saw sex as part of being a wife.

like upending the whole table, running until her lungs burned and her insides retched. With little wind

String Fever was hanging by a thread anyway in the uncertain economy.

But life is never exactly perfect, as much as we might want it to be. We have to figure out how to find the joy, anyway.

The hardest part of being a parent is accepting that not every decision you made for your children benefited them as much as you hoped it would. You do your best and pray it's enough to help them become decent, well-adjusted humans making a difference in the world.

Everybody has nightmares," she answered. "To paraphrase John Irving, you don't get to pick them. They pick you." "True enough.

HOSPITAL SLEEP WAS THE WORST.

I used to sit and cry and hold a loaded gun up to my head but I chose a slower way of being dead

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

If I had grown up in a stable household with two well-adjusted and loving parents studied hard in school graduated with honors gone to college gotten a degree found a decent job met a wonderful girl fallen in love gotten married and lived happily ever after what in the hell would I have to write about?

I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.

Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look out my window and see burning flowers and starving armies but when I look up into the night sky I see the souls of dead heroes

Sometimes I feel like I am on top of the world. Other times it feels like the world is on top of me.

Vendrán más años malos y nos harán más ciegos. Vendrán más años ciegos y nos harán más malos. Vendrán más años tristes y nos harán más fríos y nos harán más secos y nos harán más torvos.

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Life can be infernally complex,' he said.

I hate possibilities—God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.

Hell was made for Christians, which is why they seek to make earth like it.

Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.

There's nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.

The world is chock-full of monsters.

Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.