Quotes About Struggle

As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever.

Hell hates nothing quite so much as itself.

God is with those who are unhappy. Unhappiness is life, pain is life.

I went into the kitchen, took the cognac out of the icebox and had a long drink from it. It didn't help. I had another, that didn't help either.

I genitori di mio nonno dovettero lasciare il villaggio, la tomba fresca della loro piccola: s misero a intrecciare cesti di vimini, non restarono a lungo in nessun luogo perché li addolorava vedere come dappertutto il pendolo della giustizia battesse falso e sbagliato.

What a laborious, frightful business it was, this killing time, over and over again that little seconds-hand racing invisibly beyond the horizon, over and over again you threw a heavy dark sack over it, in the certain knowledge that the little hand went racing on, relentlessly on and on…

Crees que me sentó bien cuando Leo me dijo que se hacía católico? Fue tan doloroso para mí como la muerte de Henriette; no me habría dolido tanto si me hubiese dicho que se hacía comunista. Eso puedo concebirlo, que un joven albergue un falso sueño de justicia social y todo eso. Pero aquello.»

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Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.

Decades of destruction, suppression, genocide, sterilization, and political indoctrination could not break the Tibetans' will for freedom, or their deep-rooted religious beliefs. On

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

The moral and intellectual condition of a nation may certainly prove of decisive importance on its own account, but all due attention must also be paid to material considerations. When a nation has to reckon with a struggle against superior forces on several fronts, it must neglect nothing that may conduce to the betterment of its situation.

Lo cierto es que me obsesionaba una sola idea: la determinación de vivir, de sobrevivir a toda costa.

If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths - we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world.

The knife in his boot and the Smith & Wesson strapped to his ribs had been enough to get him through the past ten years flying intercept missions with the DEA into South America, breaking up the drug trade. Surely they would be enough to see him through this little exercise in neighborhood push and shove. But just as surely, he didn't want to talk about them.

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I thought how money was like food. The smell, the way it came in portions, how badly you needed it. How hungry you got for it, that acidic longing which burned and sickened in your stomach. Firm muscular control was needed over food and money. Money could kill you, wanting and needing it and fighting its power.