Quotes About Struggle

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

Despair – or as I like to call it, des-pair – means feeling unpaired in a world in which it feels like everyone else is paired with a good job, a happy marriage, loving family, caring, and hope – and you're not.

I grew up in a family struggling for work.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

Fear is a powerful force that somehow does not allow many people to get what they want in life.

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

"Others were saying, 'We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.'"

My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.

"Life must be terrible for working people, considering they spend every Friday night celebrating a two-day break from it."

"Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station."

"We are all of us failures – at least, the best of us are."

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

"…My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi…"

God, please help me! I can't go through

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

I don't believe in you, God, but please, help me.

Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.

I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.

It's been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn't learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there's a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

In a world of lunacy, Violence, stupidity, greed…it is a good life.

"The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom."