Quotes About Struggle

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, theonly time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in theHuang Pu river.

Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?

To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.

Sometimes a man cannot live up to the best idea they dared to have

As hard as we strive, man remains a perfect imperfect being.

Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I often bite my tongue and attempt to put the fire out?

There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.