Quotes About Struggle

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Too much happens…. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything…. That's what's so terrible.

Why do you hate the South?I dont hate it…. I dont hate it…. I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

Poor man. Poor mankind.

They [the Negroes] will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion—not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

I decline to accept the end of man.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

In a recent interview, he compared himself to surfers: "What are they doing this for? It's just pure. You're alone. That wave is so much bigger and stronger than you. You're always outnumbered. They always can crush you. And yet you're going to accept that and turn it into a little, brief, meaningless art form.

By thirteen, I'd mostly stopped believing in God, but that was a new development and it left a hole in my world, a feeling that I'd been abandoned. The ocean was like an uncaring god, endlessly dangerous, power beyond measure.

You have to hate how the world goes on.

Chick's entrance into Ivy University Law School constituted an important step forward in his social and professional career. There was still a hard struggle ahead of him. The next few years would be decisive in determining his position in society. Against that background we can understand what the Italian Community Club meant to Chick Morelli.

...the curious hunter-up of rare quotations... the young and struggling scribbler...

What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left of him when he's done his work? What's any artist but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.