Quotes About Struggle

The most preferable of evils.

Friends, we have not till now been unacquainted with misfortunes.

But he, mighty man, lay mightily in the whirl of dust, forgetful of his horsemanship.

The Olympian is a difficult foe to oppose.

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born.

To alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems.

Words will not speak and the silence freezes into the images of the apartheid

it is precisely in these banalities that the unhomely stirs, as the violence of a racialized society falls most enduringly on the details of life: where you can sit, or not; how you can live, or not; what you can learn, or not; who you can love, or not.

When religion and royalty are destroyed the people will attack the nobles; after the nobles, the rich.

Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

"Temptations can be got rid of." "How?" "By yielding to them."

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.