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Quotes About Struggle

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.
~ Aeschylus
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
~ Alan Cumming
Believe me, man, there are people who are going to have way more troubles mentally than I am.
~ Alan Sparhawk
Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.
~ Albert Camus
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
~ Albert Camus
To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive.
~ Alex Graves
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
~ Alexander Pope
In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."
~ Alice Hoffman
When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is.
~ Alice Neel
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
~ Alicia Keys
Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.
~ Allegra Goodman
The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that's what I had to deal with in captivity.
~ Amanda Lindhout
ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
~ Ambrose Bierce
No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Men can bear all things but good days.
~ Amelia Barr
What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.
~ Anacharsis Cloots
This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.
~ Anais Nin
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
~ Andre Gide
The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
~ Andre Malraux
Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
~ Andre Malraux
People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.
~ Andre Maurois
All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.
~ Andrew Davidson