Quotes About Struggle

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.

At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.