Quotes About Struggle

La única manera de librarse de la tentación es ceder ante ella. Si se resiste, el alma enferma, anhelando lo que ella misma se ha prohibido, deseando lo que sus leyes monstruosas han hecho monstruoso e ilegal

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

We know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All we know who lie in gaol Is that the walls are strong And each day is like a year A year whose days are long.

We are running from our pain to our pain.

The rim of a tightening lung.

It bothered him to think that the listeners might look at him as a broken down reel, trapped by sameness of his grief. Afterwards he would realize he had left out whole chunks of what he truly wanted to say.

It's a tragedy that we need to continually prove that we are human beings.

In 1974, Mahmoud Darwish wrote Yasser Arafat's speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations: Today I have come bearing an olive branch in one hand and a freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. 346 I repeat: do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

one of the principal qualities of pain is that it demands to be defeated first, then understood.

where he might variously be called a terrorist or a martyr or a murderer or a guerrilla or a freedom fighter

I felt exasperated by her, always turning, always changing, always making me feel as if I was looking for oxygen--how much like fresh air and how much, at the same time, like drowning.

I have come to think of our lives as the colors of that place- hers a piece of bog cotton, mine as black as the water found when men slash too deep in the soil with a shovel.

Someone or other was going to get torn asunder. And yet why shouldn't they fall in love, if even just for a short while.

We, the Palestinians, became the victims of the victims