Quotes About Struggle

Sous cette brume empoisonnée par leurs fatigues d'hier, des millions d'hommes s'éveillent, déjà exténués d'aujourd'hui.

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

The mountain also represents the power of vision and of enlightenment. It presents the struggle against inner ghosts; the victory over fear of solitude, silence, and the void; the capability of the awakening of the divine element within man; the power of transcendence that allows us to ascend to the top of the self.

What is it in our world that breeds such howling despair?

Six days a week, from sunup to sundown, Jesus would have toiled in the royal city, building palatial houses for the Jewish aristocracy during the day, returning to his crumbling mud-brick home at night. He would have witnessed for himself the rapidly expanding divide between the absurdly rich and the indebted poor. He

Lou closed the door behind him, then banged her head against the cool metal surface. "Stupid, stupid, stupid," she chanted to herself. Oh well, she'd just have to suck it up and call her father. Dread coursed through her at the thought. He'd have to deal with the details—Edwina particularly. Lou worried her lip.

Cuántos años y qué luchas internas habían exigido el perfeccionamiento de ese tipo de gestos de fingido desasosiego?

Perdition and evil make life fun, but conflicts eventually arise.

La gente, acá, aprende a vivir en las orillas de la desgracia. Los turistas llaman a esta miseria color local.

Pienso, luego existo. De acuerdo, pero no tenía un centavo. Todas las otras pérdidas tenían un sentido trágico, una cualidad, digamos así, simbólica: la lengua natal, la patria, los amigos. Pero ¿y el dinero? Sin dinero ¿Cómo iba a hacer, no ya para pensar sino, más directamente, para existir?

Para escribir es preciso no sentirse acomodado en el mundo, es un escudo para afrontar la vida (y hablar de eso). Son

Evil is inevitable,' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time.

The Cubs story is early excellence followed by Biblical drought, an endless trek across the wilderness.

A wild animal that feels that it no longer has any reason to live reaches in the end a point when its remaining energies may actually be directed toward dying.

Rabbits need dignity and, above all, the will to accept their fate.

A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.

Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.

Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

I don't know what I'd been expecting. You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

All was confusion, ignorance, clambering and exhaustion.

I'm the one who ought to get angry," said Fiver. "But I'm no good at it, that's the trouble.

Think yourself lucky," said Bigwig, bleeding and cursing, "that I don't kill you.

even a small warren. This one had