Quotes About Struggle

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

En este mundo sólo hay dos tragedias: una es no conseguir lo que deseas y la otra conseguirlo.

One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.

We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.

there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and weave them into a pattern; to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering.

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Cada impulso que intentamos aniquilar germina en la mente y nos envenena

I wish i could write them down, these little coloured parables or poems that live for a moment in some cell of my brain, and then leave it to go wandering elsewhere. I hate writing; the mere act of writing a thing down is troublesome to me. I want some fine medium, and look for it in vain.

She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man—that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Saat üçü vurdu, dördü vurdu, dört buçuÄŸu vurdu ama o yerinden k?m?ldamad?. Hayat?n örgüsü içindeki parlak renkli lifleri bir araya toplamaya, onlarla bir örüntü dokumaya çal???yordu; içinde dolaÅŸt???, tutkunun kan rengi labirentinde yolunu bulmaya çal???yordu.

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yeild to it.

In war,' answered the weaver, 'the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.