Quotes About Struggle

Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. I hate it. Why? said the younger man wearily. Because, said Lord Henry, passing beneath his nostrils the gilt trellis of an open vinaigrette box, one can survive everything nowadays except that.

Le donne ci ispirano il desiderio di far dei capolavori e ci impediscono sempre di eseguirli

Complex people waste half their strength in trying to conceal what they do. Is it any wonder they should always come to grief?

Everyone is born a king; some people die in exile

Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow. . . .

La única manera de librarse de la tentación es ceder ante ella. Si se resiste, el alma enferma, anhelando lo que ella misma se ha prohibido, deseando lo que sus leyes monstruosas han hecho monstruoso e ilegal. Se ha dicho que los grandes acontecimientos del mundo suceden en el cerebro. Es también en el cerebro, y sólo en el cerebro, donde se cometen los grandes pecados.

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. 

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

Pero me es imposible no detestar a mi familia. Imagino que se debe a que nadie soporta a las personas que tienen sus mismos defectos.

But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid. Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lie If this night before God's throne should stand.

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

I can resist anything except temptation - Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)

JACK: For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical. ALGERNON: My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

El único camino para deshacerse de la tentación es ceder a ella

Come sono fortunati gli attori! Loro possono scegliere se recitare in una tragedia o in una commedia, se soffrire o gioire, ridere o piangere. Ma nella vita reale è diverso. Uomini e donne sono costretti per lo più a interpretare personaggi che non sono tagliati per loro. Ai nostri Guildenstern tocca il ruolo di Amleto, e i nostri Amleti devono fare i buffoni come il principe Hal. Il mondo è un palcoscenico, ma le parti sono mal distribuite.

L'inferno e il paradiso sono tutti e due dentro di noi.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, an 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.

In the summer of '67, as a buffalo on the run

I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

For a moment, the passage of the locomotive would calm the torment in their hearts, because their fellowship with the machine was deep and strong; stronger than the barriers which separated them for their employers, stronger even than the obstacle which until now had been insurmountable--the color of their skin