Quotes About Struggle

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.

There is much more before me. I have hills far steeper to climb, valleys much darker to pass through. And I have to get it all out of myself. Neither religion, morality, nor reason can help me at all.

Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air; The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Are what they give us there: For flowers have been known to heal A common man's despair.

I can resist anything but temptation

I can resist everything except temptation.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

Each narrow cell in which we dwell Is a foul and dark latrine, And the fetid breath of living Death Chokes up each grated screen, And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

El único modo de librarnos de la tentación es ceder a ella.

Alas, I'm dying beyond my means

I did not know it was such pain to die; I thought that life had taken all the agonies to itself.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

Life is a great disappointment.

But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.

I can quite understand a man accepting laws that protect private property, and admit of its accumulation, as long as he himself is able under those conditions to realise some form of beautiful and intellectual life. But it is almost incredible to me how a man whose life is marred and made hideous by such laws can possibly acquiesce in their continuance.

All trials are trials for one's life.

We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

The hand upon his shoulder weighed like a hand of lead. It was intolerable. It seemed to crush him.

Ehrgeiz ist die letzte Zuflucht des Versagers