Quotes About Struggle

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in.

In adversity man is saved by hope.

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

Every man is a hero of his own story.

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

Jesus Christ-" "Is Not here right now," the man in black replied,"and even if he were, he could not save you.