Quotes About Struggle

It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Kid, I can handle anything but the middle of the night.

You, Lowell, beloved poet of many, what do you know of the dirt and the dark deliveries of the necessary? What do you know of dignity hard-achieved, and dignity lost through innocence, and dignity lost by sacrifice for a cause one cannot name. What do you know about getting fat against your will, and turning into a clown of an arriviste baron when you would rather be an eagle or a count, or rarest of all, some natural aristocrat from these damned democratic states.

Despair is the emotion we feel at the death of beings within us.

Since the sum of her experience had told her that the majority of one's prayers to God were not answered, she prayed now directly to us, she called upon the Devil, she implored him.

There seems to be endless capacity for strife in your system." "Of course there is. Doesn't that fit human nature?

For what is a curse but an unfair theft of strength. (Whatever is attempted in the way of improving your position brings back less than the effort exerted.)

Bessie could not keep from thinking, "His nightmare will be over, but mine will never be.

He had been given the job and he was going to do it. But now for the first time he hated it genuinely. Perhaps there had been too many fatigue-products, perhaps the cumulative labor had dissolved and reshaped the structures of his mind, but in any case he was wretched with this work, and as a corollary he understood suddenly that he had always hated the drudgery of his farm work, the unending monotonous struggle against an arid unyielding soil.

his memory, like a battered drunk at the end of a spree, groped over the events of the last six weeks.

zabitiy, which means somebody beats you, beats you, beats you, until you are beaten down.

The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation

Gary Mark Gilmore: Go down on me, partner... I need it Nicole Baker: Don't call me partner. Gary Mark Gilmore: No, darlin'... I love it... I love it Nicole Baker: Yeah, you and seven other motherfuckers.

Margaret is kindled by it, exalted for a time, sees it as passion, glows and becomes rounded, but only for a time. After a year it is completely naked, apparent to her, that he is alone, that he fights out battles with himself upon her body, and something withers in her.

He was released in 2006, and his memoir, the book for which he was getting the prize in Dayton, In the Place of Justice, tells his story, from being a confused kid caught in a bank robbery gone bad, to a man who had fully taken

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. - The Mathemagician

You wouldn't like it much anyway," someone replied gently. "Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

One dollar and eighty-seven cents.