Quotes About Struggle

When they brought Blevins back he sat in the corner and didnt speak. John Grady talked with the old man. His name was Orlando. He didnt know what crime he was accused of. He'd been told he could go when he signed the papers but he couldnt read the papers and no one would read them to him. He didnt know how long he'd been here. Since sometime in the winter. While they were talking the guards came again and the old man shut up.

When people want to be reimbursed for their pain they seldom are.

He raised his face to the paling day. Are you there? he whispered. Will I see you at the last? Have you a neck by which to throttle you? Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh God, he whispered. Oh God.

The old man swung his head back and forth. The way of the transgressor is hard. God made this world but he didn't make it to suit everybody, did he? I don't believe he much had me in mind. Aye, said the old man. But where does a man come by his notions. What world's he seen that he liked better?

A friend once told me that those who choose a love that can never be fulfilled will be hounded by a rage that can never be extinguished.

What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

I hadnt known until that night that at its worst lust could be something close to anguish.

La gente si lamenta sempre delle cose brutte che gli capitano senza che se le sia meritate ma non parla mai delle cose belle. Di cosa ha fatto per meritarle. Io non ricordo di aver mai dato a nostro Signore motivi particolari per sorridermi. Però lui mi ha sorriso.

Toadvine was four steps above him and when he kicked him he caught him in the throat.

Hard people makes hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why God ain't put out the sun and gone away.

DOOMED ENTERPRISES divide lives forever into the then and the now.

Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night.

I ain't ahead by a damn sight. I never will be.

Pues la hostilidad del mundo le resultaba ahora nuevamente manifiesta y tan fría como debe de serlo para todo aquel que ya no tiene para combatirla otra cosa que sí mismo.

He sounded like a man with a mouthful of marbles, articulating his goatbone underjaw laboriously, the original one having been shot away.

There wasn't any virtue in it. The drinking or the quittin? Either one. There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.

Glanton could see crouched in a corner a Mexican or halfbreed boy maybe twelve years old. He was naked save for a pair of old calzones and makeshift sandals of uncured hide. He glared back at Glanton with a sort of terrified insolence.

He visto tantas maldades que no sé cómo Dios no apaga el sol y acaba con todos nosotros

You would give up your dreams in order to escape your nightmares and I would not. I think it's a bad bargain.

I think maybe it's harder to lose just one thing than to lose everything.

He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them.

Ci sono quattro cose che possono distruggere il mondo, disse. Le donne, il whisky, i soldi e i negri.

His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it.

Life. What can you say? It's not for everybody.