Quotes About Struggle

I'm running out of places I can run, looking for a place in the sun.

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

I am the captain of my pain.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

I decline to accept the end of man.

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.