Quotes About Struggle

I was still trying to be the toughest guy in Temple Hills, like that meant something.

The party was long over, and only alcoholics and drug addicts were left to rifle through the last of our things.

Spit and blood!

The torturer was wheeling around the room, shrieking, holding his impaled hand, which had a pen sticking out of it. The guard by the door was in paroxysms of laughter. Frey had crumpled the confession into a ball and was trying to get it into his mouth to eat it, but couldn't quote reach.

Help me. Please, God help me...

She looked as if she had been mauled by a tiger.

The seedy single-room-occupancy hotels and low-rent apartment buildings in that neighborhood were like vending machines filled with victims.

The first thing I did was lock myself in the bathroom and unwind my binders. I was moist and sour from adrenaline and fear sweat and I felt like I would die if I didn't rinse off. There was no soap and the rusty, lukewarm water dribbled out of the showerhead like blood from the wrist of a reluctant suicide. Still, it was better than nothing.

She had to do something. Anything. She had to focus, think, fight. She wasn't anybody's point to prove. She was fucking Batgirl. Her body was broken and her mind jagged and fractured by trauma, but she was still alive, and she wasn't going down without a fight.

To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self

In the middle of a war you think of nothing but how it will end. And put off living. When large numbers of people do that, it creates a vacuum within us which the war flows in to fill.

Das Ungenügen mit sich selbst ist der eigentliche Stachel.

I ask myself what gives a person, what gave that woman, the right to confront us with decisions that we are not equal to making, decisions that tear us apart and leave us feeling inferior, incompetent, guilty.

Che altro se non tempo, fertilità del suolo, morìa di bestie, malattie - volevo strappare la gente al circolo dentro cui era inserita? Dentro cui stava bene, non cercava nient'altro? Al che io, scattando: perché non conosce niente altro. Perché c'è qualcuno che lascia alla gente solo questa specie di domande.

Los hombres, débiles, espoleado para ser vencedores, nos necesitan como víctimas para poder sentirse siquiera.

öldürmek ve ölmek aras?nda üçüncü bir ÅŸey var: yaÅŸamak.

Und in mir wurde gekämpft, das merkte ich wohl. Zwei Gegner auf Leben und Tod hatten sich die erstorbne Leidenschaft meiner Seele zum Kampflplatz gewählt. Nur der Wahnsinn schützte mich vor dem unerträglichen Schmerz, den die beiden mir sonst zugefügt hätten. So hielt ich am Wahnsinn fest, er an mir.

Asi no se puede vivir ¿Vivir? Morir sí Niña. Tu quieres acabar con todo. Eso quiero. Porque no conozco otro medio para que los hombres acaben.

Manchmal, sagt Kleist - irgend etwas an dieser Frau entzieht ihm wie ein Magnet die angreifbarsten Geständnisse -, manchmal ist es mir unerträglich, daß die Natur den Menschen in Mann und Frau aufgespalten hat. Das meinen Sie nicht, Kleist. Sie meinen, daß in Ihnen selbst Mann und Frau einander feindlich gegenüberstehn. Wie auch in mir.

The whole world like a wall facing me. I fumble over the stones: no gaps. Why should I go on deluding myself: there's no gap for me to live in. It's my own fault. It's me, I'm simply not determined enough. Yet how simple and natural everything seemed when I first read about it in books.

Ich habe nicht gewußt, was ein Mensch erträgt. Nun sitze ich da und muß mir sagen, auf dieser Fähigkeit, Unerträgliches zu ertragen und weiterzuleben, weiter zu tun, was zu tun man gewöhnt ist, auf dieser unheimlichen Fähigkeit beruht der Bestand des Menschengeschlechts.

To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot-and the world can look a different place. And then where is this "self"?

the art of survival is a story that never ends

We enjoy the unique faculty of being able to act against natural selection. The problem is that, in order to do this, we must actively oppose some of our key genetic traits, surmount our own nature.