Quotes About Struggle

When I was born I was unwanted. When I married Charles I was unwanted. When I joined the Royal Family I was unwanted. I want to be wanted. —Diana, Princess of Wales

My heart was defective. It was defecting a little more each day.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.' Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money.

If oppression produced saints, we'd want everyone to be oppressed.

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don't understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal.

He felt water run down his back from the damp brickwork he was sitting against, and as he worried distantly about corrosion he realised you can always fall a little further. A moment ago he thought he'd bottomed out, but now he was concerned about personal rust. Mother of fuck.

The trickiest thing about not killing yourself is knowing that if one day you decide it was a mistake, then you'll always be able to rectify it. Opting against suicide may be a choice for life, but it's not for life.

Front had caused millions of deaths without any real victories. The capture of Jerusalem

I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

A revolution is a struggle for power and is inevitably a messy affair. If we are not prepared for the fact that future revolutionary situations are going to present us with unpleasant choices then we are not really interested in making revolution.

He seemed to believe that every battle was worth fighting.

The 1953 coup was a catastrophe which slammed him [Mosaddegh] to floor, and from which Iran never fully recovered

Life is short and filled with pain, and just when you start to finally get the hang of it, you drop dead.

We are all of us lost. The best we can do is make whatever we're lost in as much like home as we can.

jennet. Are you doing this to save me? thomas. You natter my powers, My sweet; you're too much a woman. But if you wish You can go down to the dinner of damnation On my arm. jennet. I dine elsewhere.

I defend myself against pain and death by pain And death,

In the past I wanted to be hung. It was worth while being hung to be a hero, seeing that life was not really worth living.

How do you know that out there, in the day or night According to latitude, the entire world Isn't wanting to be hanged? Now you, for instance, Still damp from your cocoon, you're desperate To fly into any noose of the sun that should dangle Down from the sky. Life, forbye, is the way We fatten for the Michaelmas of our own particular Gallows.

My goal is to live far outside of history as possible. History is a territory where mostly bad things happen to good people.

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.