Quotes About Struggle

This was the darkest hour of Alfred's fortunes. It was some months before he could even start a guerrilla. He led "with thanes and vassals an unquiet life in great tribulation…. For he had nothing wherewith to supply his wants except what in frequent sallies he could seize either stealthily or openly, both from the heathen and from the Christians who had submitted to their rule." He lived as Robin Hood did in Sherwood Forest long afterwards.

The story of the human race is War.

You may always walk with the Devil till you get to the end of the bridge.

War is very cruel. It goes on for so long.

Los hombres del comienzo no deben ser juzgados completamente bajo la luz del fin. Tenía que aprenderse todo; tenía que sufrirse todo. Pero los que aprendieron más lentamente no fueron los que tenían que sufrir más.

Pictures of heroism and triumph only tempt those who know nothing of the sufferings and terrors of war.

this had been a war, not of governments, but of peoples. The whole life-energy of the greatest nations had been poured out in wrath and slaughter.

War is a business of terrible pressures, and persons who take part in it must fail if they are not strong enough to withstand them.

I am my own obstacle.

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.

a stone / which in its own archaic, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts.

Cierta gente huyendo de otra gente. En cierto país bajo el sol y bajo ciertas nubes.

History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares: —it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells and bitter bread.

Our times are still not safe and sane enough for faces to show ordinary sorrow.

The price, after all, for not having died already goes up not in leaps but step by step, and he would pay that price, too.

They'll reenter their lives' cages, where love's tiger sometimes rages, but the beast's too tame to bite.   We'll

Eso de fotogénico tiene poco, y requiere años. Todas las cámaras se han ido ya a otra guerra.

He who wishes to drown himself must have an ax at hand to cut the ice.

Lying in wait, set to pounce on the blank page, are letters up to no good, clutches of clauses so subordinate they'll never let her get away. From, The Joy of Writing, Wislawa Szymborska

He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time.

When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we become ourselves we reach right back to the time when we were conceived out of our parents' passion. We murder their lives. There can never be any forgiveness.

Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide.