Quotes About Struggle

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

Lord I'm Doing All I Can To Be A Better Man.

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

During war we imprison the rights of man.

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.