Quotes About Struggle

El dolor de la vida supera a la alegría hasta tal punto que la alegría deja de existir.

Instead, we spent our downtime prodding at lifeless characters and wondering how long a human body could subsist on a diet of ramen and Coke before liver function ceased entirely.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." — Winston Churchill

étrier step, pulled delicately on the next one, and tried

The biggest complaint we heard in those days was that the training was too easy.

almost a grown man, yet when it came to his mutant

I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.

I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?

Look at us, won't you? We are nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.

This helpful war. It makes us better people and then it tries to kill us.

One does not rise above the everyday simply because one ought to.

A girl like me gets stopped at immigration.

If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain to them how it was possible to be drowning in a river of people and also feel so very, very alone.

You have seen trouble too, Sarah. You are making a mistake if you think it is unusual. I am telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

Perhaps life just turned a person who tried harder into a person who felt they must write it on someone else's report.