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Quotes About Struggle

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
~ Ouida
In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
~ Raekwon
I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.
~ Ralph Stanley
I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.
~ Randy Newman
Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.
~ Ray Bradbury
It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe
~ Ray Bradbury
A man destined to hang can never drown
~ Regina Spektor
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.
~ Rex Stout
(Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.
~ Richelle Mead
Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me. I sighed. This trip might take awhile. "Then start walking, Rose," I muttered to myself. I set off, off to kill the man I loved.
~ Richelle Mead
I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.
~ Rick James
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
~ Robert A. Burton
By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.
~ Robert Bly
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.
~ Robert Browning
Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.
~ Robert D. Hales
Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.
~ Robert Graves
The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
~ Robert Jordan
As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.
~ Robert Jordan
I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.
~ Robert Kennedy
The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.
~ H. Rider Haggard
Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.
~ Helen Waddell