Quotes About Struggle

I wasn't his son. That was another Charlie. Intelligence and knowledge had changed me, and he would resent me---as the others from the bakery resented me---because my growth diminished him.

man walking on stilts among giants

Quanto mais inteligente você se tornar, mais problemas você terá, Charlie. Seu crescimento intelectual vai ultrapassar seu crescimento emocional.

Minha raiva era um sentimento empolgante, e eu não a abandonaria facilmente. Eu estava pronto para brigar.

Dovevo combattere? Dargliela vinta? Soccombere al terzo mondo per sfuggire alle tragiche realtà che sono al di là della mia porta di acciaio? Ma vale la pena di vivere inghiottiti dal bidone della spazzatura che la società riserva alle menti disadattate?

um homem caminhando em pernas de pau entre gigantes [...]

Então é assim que uma pessoa chega a se desprezar: sabendo que está fazendo a coisa errada sem conseguir parar

I'm like an animal who's been locked out of his nice, safe cage.

Sometimes I wonder: Do I want to gel well? Is all this fear, all this shit I'm going through now worth it? Or should I bury myself back here in the brain and forget about it?" "What's your answer?" "I don't know.

I didn't know what to tell her.I wished I could say that like the House of Atreus or Cadmus we were suffering for the sinesof our forefathers, or fulfilling an ancient Greek oracle.But I had no answer for her, or for myself.

I'm not your friend. I'm your enemy. I'm not going to give up my intelligence without a struggle. I can't go back down into that cave.

So this is how a person can come to despise himself - knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

Anna Bergman in Private Confessions], unlike her mother... has never been able to tame her fantasies of what life ought to be like, to adapt the role she yearns to enact to the play she finds herself in.

A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, Get a boat!

There must be something terribly wrong with me that I'm unable to find joy in the world of work. He always wrote. And of course all his friends were forever saying to him What's wrong with you that you can't get this wonderful program? Perhaps you understand for the first time now that my role here is to bring you this tremendous news, that there's nothing wrong here with YOU. You are not what's wrong.

A battered wife will invest all her feelings of self-worth in her battering husband. She has totally accepted her husband's valuation of her, and this is why she stays: She hopes to redeem herself in her husband's eyes—and therefore in her own.

I don't think there's any loneliness greater than the loneliness to be found in a bad marriage. In solitary confinement, everyone knows you're lonely and feels sorry for you. In a bad marriage loneliness is your darkest secret, one you dare not even share with your spouse.

Your sufferings must be borne, for you suffer in the cause of good. See how great we have become! ...Though your groans fill the air, isn't it sweeter to live in our own hands than in the hands of the gods?

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

He had become simply Edward Bloom: Man. I'd caught him at a bad time in his life. And this was no fault of his own. It was simply that the world no longer held the magic that allowed him to live grandly within it.

To get better now would take more than a miracle; it would take a written excuse from Zeus himself, signed in triplicate and sent to every other deity who might lay claim to my father's withered body and soul.

I'd caught him at a bad time in his life. And this was no fault of his own. It was simply that the world no longer held the magic that allowed him to live grandly within it.

This wasn't life, of course. This was life support. This was what the medical world had fashioned to take the place of Purgatory.

Lives have a way of getting on with themselves. But in the short run it will be hard.