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Quotes About Struggle

Ah, izlemeli her ÅŸeyden uzaklaÅŸan yolu, kesmediÄŸi yolu yürek daralmas?n?n, ölümün, k???n, çiyler aras?nda aç?lan gözleriyle.
~ Pablo Neruda
Contra los indios todas las armas se usaron con generosidad: el disparo de carabina, el incendio de sus chozas, y luego, en forma más paternal, se empleó la ley y el alcohol.
~ Pablo Neruda
Huye. Aléjate. Extínguete. Mi alma debe estar sola. Debe crucificarse, hacerse astillas, rodar, verterse, contaminarse sola, abierta a la marea de los llantos, ardiendo en el ciclón de las furias, erguida entre los cerros y los pájaros, aniquilarse, exterminarse sola, abandonada y única como un faro de espanto.
~ Pablo Neruda
We se that [anguish] is the way that capitalism rids itself of those mentalities that could prove hostile to it in the class struggle
~ Pablo Neruda
Why did you pour tender fire so quickly, over my life's cool leaves? Who pointed the way to you? What flower, what rock, what smoke showed you where I live? …while inside, a ferocious love wound around and around me?till it pierced me with its thorns, its sword, slashing a seared road through my heart.
~ Pablo Neruda
Será dura la lucha, la vida será dura, pero vendrás conmigo.
~ Pablo Neruda
Ah, bir su ve y?ld?z yolculuÄŸudur sevmek, bunalt?c? hava ve unun ans?z?n kopan f?rt?nas?yla: ÅžimÅŸeklerin kap??mas?d?r sevmek, h?rpalanm?? iki beden, ayn? baldan geçerek.
~ Pablo Neruda
Let's try and avoid death in small doses, reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing. Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
~ Pablo Neruda
For the diseased, what color do you think April is? Has pensado de que color es el Abril de los enfermos?
~ Pablo Neruda
Dejé de ser niño porque comprendí que a mi pueblo no le permitieron la vida y le negaron la sepultura.
~ Pablo Neruda
de nuevo te levanto, vida, sobre mis hombros
~ Pablo Neruda
We're constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust — entropy always wins.
~ Pablo Picasso
There's nothing more difficult than a line.
~ Pablo Picasso
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war." ? Pablo Picasso
~ Pablo Picasso
La obstinación de fray De las Casas para liberar a los indígenas de la cruel dominación de los europeos lo llevó a propugnar su reemplazo por esclavos traídos de África, como si estos no fueran seres humanos, lo que fomentará el tráfico negrero al darle sustento ideológico y religioso.
~ Pacho O'Donnell
En carta del 9 de septiembre de 1817 a su londinense iniciador masónico, lord MacDuff, escribe San Martín, acongojado: "¡Qué sentimiento de dolor, mi querido amigo, debe despertar en vuestro pecho el destino de estas bellas regiones! Parecería que los españoles estuvieran empecinados en convertirlas en un desierto, tal es el carácter de la guerra que hacen. Ni edades ni sexos escapan al patíbulo".
~ Pacho O'Donnell
You don't have to pay me to tell you this but this a dream born of depression. That's all it is. So what do I do? No idea. Stay awake. Good idea.
~ Padgett Powell
Sometimes we kid ourselves when we imagine our lives, expecting that everything will neatly fall into place.
~ Padma Lakshmi
the more brutal or austere the diet, the harder it is to keep.
~ Padma Lakshmi
experienced a bout of atheism. With adolescent self-importance, I wondered why God would allow all this to happen to a fourteen-year-old girl. When
~ Padma Lakshmi
Everything I had been carting from one stage of my life to another, to remind me of me, was in the boxes that surrounded me. And there were so many of them now, just days before my thirty-seventh birthday. But so little left of me. At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.
~ Padma Lakshmi
She had so little control over her own life. Yet she took control, out of thin air for herself, when she could. I
~ Padma Lakshmi
The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his sober life cheating on his wife and filled with guilt.
~ PALAHNIUK CHUCK
I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.
~ Pam Houston