Quotes About Struggle

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.

But to be furious, murderously furious, is to be alive. No longer young, no longer pretty, no longer loved, or sweet, or lovable, unmasked, writhing on the ground for all to see in my utter ingloriousness, there's no telling what I might do

Yeah, you have to struggle, and yeah, sometimes you fail, but how you react to that failure is where the choice comes in. You can either get pissed and give up, or you can ask yourself, 'How can I make it better?

That hunger for power will need to be beaten out of her

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

If we beat the king ninety and nine times, yet he is king still and so will his posterity be after him; but if the king beat us once, we shall all be hanged, and our posterity made slaves.

Nothing is quite as depressing as depression.

Putting up with" means withdrawing from panic in panic; adding panic to panic, hoping that panic will go quickly and not come back; it means avoiding people and places that bring on panic so that one's horizon becomes narrower and narrower until it is finally bounded by the front gate; it means always keeping the way open for quick retreat; it means expecting retreat. It means continued illness.

America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

There are no 'ifs' in combat. When you win, you win, When you lose, you lose.

Kurogane: For all my life... I've wanted strength. I didn't want those things precious to me to be taken away from me anymore. But, to have strength means to invite disaster to come to you. And strength alone can't really protect you.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

you. To add glumness to disability is to double its crippling power. Jessy's cheeriness still smooths her way.

Clara Claiborne Park

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

Fascism is the punishment inflicted on the proletariat for not having continued the revolution begun in Russia.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Yes, that was the unbearable thing: having to go on, after your life has been ripped apart, while you struggle to understand how in a split second the whole world has unbelievably changed.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Money has been the most serious handicap that we have ever met. There are times when poverty is fortunate

When they want a working man for anything excepting work they want him for conspiracy.

The first great cause of crime is poverty, and we will never cure crime until we get rid of poverty.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.