Quotes About Struggle

I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

I see and approve of the better, but I follow the worse.

We believe slowly when belief brings pain.

Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet: video meliora proboque,deteriora sequor!

And yet, no joy is ever unalloyed, and worry worms its way into delight

Militat omnis amans.

Let the storm have its will of man – but let storm and poem reach their end, I pray, each at the same time!

I have no language to paint the horrors of our situation. To shed tears was indeed altogether unavailing and withal unmanly yet I was not able to deny myself the relief they served to afford me.

It seemed to us as if fate was wholly relentless, in pursuing us with such a cruel complication of disasters.

Ah, me, she sighed. If marriage were as simple as love!

Loving him didn't fix anything. Loving him didn't change anything. Loving him simply made everything else bearable.

I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.

Light always underestimates the viciousness of Darkness

I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing about be as bad as being stuck here.Nothing.

I was crazy about Heath. And his blood. Erik was an amazing guy who I really, really liked. Loren was completely delicious. Jeesh, I sucked. - Zoey Redbird (Ch 20)

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

Yeah, fucknuts, its you. You're me. To get into this place, You're gonna have to kill me. Which is not gonna happen 'cause I'm not so cool with dying. What is gonna happen is that i'm gonna kick your ass and kill you dead.

There's some shit you just can't control.

A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it, he said.

Darkness got you like Shelob gor Frodo, only worse.

What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.