Quotes About Struggle

Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.

Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.

The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.