Quotes About Struggle

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

Shiloh isn't haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn't care.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.

Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.