Quotes About Struggle

Life might be cheap on Terra ... but living wasn't.

So most of my life has been lived in hell.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.

Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

the sills of their disappointments walk outside their bodies aimlessly for the most part, locked and forgot in their desires—unroused.

Our dreams have been assaulted by a memory that will not sleep

he sees squirming roots trampled under the foliage of his mind by the holiday crowds as by the feet of the straining minister. From his eyes sparrows start and sing. His ears are toadstools, his fingers have begun to sprout leaves (his voice is drowned under the falls) . Poet, poet! sing your song, quickly! or not insects but pulpy weeds will blot out your kind.

Poets are damned, but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.

Poets are damned, but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

But though I have felt free only in the presence of works of the imagination, knowing the quickening of the sense which came of it, and though this experience has held me firm at such times, yet being of a slow but accurate understanding, I have not always been able to complete the intellectual steps which would make me firm in the position. So most of my life has been lived in hell -- a hell of repression lit by flashes of inspiration, when a poem such as this or that would appear

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

Nobody wants to read about happy people.

In Chicago [during the Great Depression], a crowd of some fifty hungry men fought over barrel of garbage set outside the back door of restaurant

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

You can't. You just have to.

You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.