Quotes About Struggle

Maybe I should end it all before I regress.

I'm sure I could crack open my skull and scoop out enough of my brain to put myself out of my misery. It would be a gruesome way to die, but wouldn't it be better than shuffling around as a lost, tormented soul for the rest of my wretched years?

If they decide... to kill you, will you... let them? I won't be able to stop them, I answered. But will you... go quietly? I'm not sure, I sighed. If they'd taken me right after the fight, I'd have gone without a murmur — I was pumped up with adrenaline and wasn't scared of dying. Now that I've calmed down, I'm dreading it. I hope I'll go with my head held high, but I'm afraid I'll cry and beg for mercy.

I hoped the writing would help me get things straight in my head, especially with regards to Kurda, but I was just as confused by the end as I'd been at the beginning. No matter how I looked at it, I couldn't help feeling that Kurda had been both a hero and a villain. Things would be simpler if he was one or the other, but I couldn't pigeonhole him. It was just too complicated.

Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight.

Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always — will always be — there.

After all, in this world of humans, he was little better than a monster, and what did a monster have to be afraid of in the dark?

He who believes in the struggle for existence and in the principle of natural selection, will acknowledge that every organic being is constantly endeavouring to increase in numbers; and thus if any one being vary ever so little, either in habits or structure, and thus gain an advantage over some other inhabitant of the country, it will seize on the place of that inhabitant, however different it may be from its own place.

Two things become clear to me. The first is that this is a world where good and evil struggle in all levels of existence. I want to be a force for good. The second thing is that I need to find employment if I want to obtain any more currency. As I'm sure is the case for many earthlings, I find my answer on the television. My martian name is J'onn J'onzz. Here on Earth I shall be known as John Jones. Police detective John Jones. I'll be one of the good guys.

This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.

I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm? Why don't you stay sober today? We didn't come to New York to stay sober.

The man whose name I had not caught was saying: "Comes the revolution and we'll all be lined up against the wall—first thing." He seemed to think it was a good idea.

What do people think about my staying with Harrison with him chasing everything that's hot and hollow?

It's a long while since I burst out crying because policemen didn't like me.

Margaret's throat had some swollen thing in it. Fog blurred everything but the charging red face. An unvoiced whimper shook her breast. She wanted to run to him as to a lover. She wanted to run from him as from a ravisher. She stood very still in her doorway, smiling demurely with dry, hot mouth.

I lost my guts out fighting your fights while you were hiding in bed and thinking up new ways of disowning me. Find another wet nurse.

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu? This translates roughly to: How the hell did these people win the Cold War?

Boy is this journey ever long. Also arduous.

Soon the floor in front of us is littered with the corpses of unfinished songs.

Nobody understands how hard it is, being captain.

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.