Quotes About Struggle

Richard Bachman

Richard Bachman

They were the walking dead.

Richard Bachman

Richard Bachman

He's almost there now, McVries said at his elbow, startling him. When they start half-hoping someone will shoot them so they can rest their feet, they're not far away.

And if a collection of bad cells no bigger than a walnut could destroy all those things, those things that are so personal that they can never be properly articulated, so personal you hardly dared admit their existence to yourself, what did that leave? How could you trust life again? How could you see it as anything more meaningful than a Saturday night demolition derby?

Ich muss Sie darauf hinweisen, dass Sie im Augenblick bis zur Hüfte in der Scheiße stecken und dass die Scheiße immer tiefer wird. Und ich nehme nicht an, dass Sie schwimmen können.

After seventy-eight days and 2,200 miles, the enterprise was in serious trouble - not from crocodiles, hippos, bandits, diseases, or even bureaucracy - but from simple human conflict.

I am the father that killed his son, the fine green branch; there is no hand or shelter to help me. I am a raven that has no home; I am a boat going from wave to wave; I am a ship that has lost its rudder; I am the apple left on the tree; it is little I thought of falling from it; grief and sorrow will be with me from this time.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become difficult.

I feel horrible. She doesn't love me and I wander around the house like a sewing machine that's just finished sewing a turd to a garbage can lid.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

people need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some.

You sons-of-bitches all have bicycles! he said, I'll have a bicycle someday!

This might have been a funny story if it weren't for the fact that people need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some.

Donner Party Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that we know

Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid.

stressful year after year? One reason is the ever-evolving army of mind viruses, taking over a greater and greater

Your protectors' goals for your life revolve around keeping you away from all that pain, shame, loneliness, and fear, and they use a wide array of tools to meet those goals—achievements, substances, food, entertainment, shopping, sex, obsession with your appearance, caretaking, meditation, money, and so on.

The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.

It is a fearful problem for the ordinary person, with no special talents, to occupy himself, especially if he no longer has roots in the soil or in custom or in the beloved conventions of a traditional society.

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

Predators seem beautifully 'designed' to catch prey animals, while the prey animals seem equally beautifully 'designed' to escape them. Whose side is God on?66