Quotes About Struggle

Nothing like hard work for driving away the shadows.

I'm fighting, I'm falling, I'm wondering how a god who's supposed to be merciful can stand by and watch this. I want to shrink down and hide. I want to be invisible.

Even after this, even after everything, still you are ruled by your dreams. But your dreams cannot help you.

Be radical, have principles, be absolute, be that which the bourgeoisie calls an extremist: give yourself without counting or calculating, don't accept what they call 'the reality of life' and act in such a way that you won't be accepted by that kind of 'life', never abandon the principle of struggle.

Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while, were drawn to him.

Cuanto más le odiaba, tanto más intentaba amarle, y lo conseguía. Estimulada por el apetito sexual, no podía hacer otra cosa.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

I am the history of battery assault and limitless armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body and my soul

increasingly weak. Then, half a century after Lord Macartney's failed mission, the closed door was pushed ajar by Britain through the Opium

The old man, who shuffled along with great difficulty, bent double, was blind. To attract the attention of passersby,he sang a heart wrenching tune. Every time my father heard the song, he said to himself that society must change.

In China, one was accustomed to a certain amount of injustice

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

We grow up and figure out the truth, we realize how hard it is to maintain and take care of life, even the ones that deceive you, especially the ones you cherish

It was a house halfway between this and that, between upper-middle-class luxuries and absentminded squalor. My father had been too distracted, while he was alive

The world is full of whiners. But the fact is, nothing comes with a guarantee. They say as soon as you're born, you're dying, and everything in between is a struggle just to stay sane. And once you're out here in the wide-open world... you're on your own.

I can't drink you away. I've tried...

And so, one bit one's nails, unable to find contentment in the simple beating of one's heart... one smoked, unable to be satisfied with the rhythm of one's brain...

His expression hardened. It was unpleasant to have feelings that he had been at pains to check aroused to no purpose

There are all kinds of life, and sometimes the other side of the hill looks greener. What's hardest for me is not knowing what living like this will ever come to.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time. I too was wretchedly floundering around, tightly closed into the bag of myself.