Quotes About Struggle

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

The life of man is a winter way.

Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.

Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

A frightened man is a beaten man.

A man could not always be where he belonged, though.

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

Man, sometimes God really sucks.

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.