Quotes About Struggle

Reason discovered the struggle for existence and the law requiring that we oppress everyone who impedes the gratification of our desires. That is reason's conclusion. But loving one's fellow man reason could not discover because it is not reasonable.

Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence, and the law that requires us to oppress all who hinder the satisfaction of our desires. That is the deduction of reason. But loving one's neighbor reason could never discover, because it's irrational.

And everybody was undermining everybody else mainly over the course of the war, which all these men thought they were in control of, though in practice the war ignored them and went its own inevitable way. In

All that spring he was not himself, and went through fearful moments of horror.

You will see war not as a beautiful, orderly, and gleaming formation, with music and beaten drums, streaming banners and generals on prancing horses, but war in its authentic expression - as blood suffering and death.

And should there be nothing left but to die?" he thought. "Well, if need be, I shall do it no worse than others.

I strove to shatter and destroy that love, which had come to torture me. I did not destroy it, but I destroyed that part of it which gave me pain. Then I grew calm; and I feel love still, but it is a different kind of love.

It was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, but went on turning uselessly in the same place.

She was overcome by sweet sorrow, and tears were already rising to her eyes: then she suddenly asked herself to whom she was saying this? Again everything was shrouded in hard, dry perplexity, and again with a strained frown she peered towards the world where he was.

No te equivocas, estaba desesperada y no puedo dejar de estarlo. Mientras te escucho pienso en él. Lo amo, soy su amante. No te puedo soportar, te tengo miedo y te odio… Puedes hacer conmigo lo que quieras.

He imposes the cross. He also gives the strength

How can one be well when one suffers morally? Is it possible to remain at ease in our time, if one has any feeling?

be tempted by so easy a way of ending my life. I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. And all this befell

In the corporal's changed face, in the sound of his voice, in the stirring and deafening noise of the drums, he recognized that mysterious, callous force which compelled people against their will to kill their fellow men—that force the effect of which he had witnessed during the executions. To fear or to try to escape that force, to address entreaties or exhortations to those who served as its tools, was useless.

If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars," he said. "And that would be splendid," said Pierre. Prince Andrew smiled ironically. "Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about. . . ." "Well, why are you going to the war?" asked Pierre. "What for? I don't know. I must. Besides that I am going . . ." He paused. "I am going because the life I am leading here does not suit me!

you talk of Bonaparte—why, when he was working toward his goal, he went forward step by step; he was free; he had nothing except his goal to consider, and he attained it. But tie yourself to a woman and you're bound hand and foot—all freedom gone.

Our life's improvement and our fight against evil can begin only with the spiritual development of each individual.

With one burning hand she held his and with the other she kept pushing him away.

PART FOUR 1

Like a wounded animal at bay watching the dogs and the hunt close in, Natasha looked from one to the other.

That's how it is, dear fellow. Fate looks for a head. But we are always judging, 'that's not well—that's not right!' Our luck is like water in a dragnet: you pull at it and it bulges, but when you've drawn it out it's empty! That's how it is.

Sta?o si? z nim to, co zawsze dzieje si? z lud?mi, którzy zwracaj? si? do wiedzy nie po to, ?eby odgrywa? w niej rol?: pisa?, dyskutowa?, uczy? innych, lecz zwracaj? si? do wiedzy z bezpo?rednimi, prostymi ?yciowymi pytaniami; nauka odpowiada?a mu na tysi?ce ró?nych bardzo trudnych i zawi?ych pyta?, tylko nie na te pytania, na które szuka? odpowiedzi.

My poor husband is enduring pains and hunger in Jewish taverns, but the news which I have inspires me yet more.

Cristo, el hijo de Dios, ha venido a la tierra y nos ha dicho que esta vida no es mas que un corto momento, una prueba, y, sin embargo, nos empeñamos en encontrar en el la felicidad