Quotes About Struggle

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.

My point is there will always be vile men, just as there will always be men of kindness and compassion... ...This world is a troubled, savage, place. It would, however, even be more ghastly if only evil men took time to master weapons. - Waylander from the book Hero in the Shadows by David Gemmell

We are fighting the greatest war the world has ever seen, and our likely future is death and ruins, and you are thinking about a women you love, instead of making battle plans. If this is what love can do to a man, perhaps you were better off without it. He smiled to himself. I do not believe that, he thought.

Yes, it would have been good, he thought, to spend quiet years with his family, waiting for his diseased heart to fail as he sat in his chair staring at the mountains. But this was better. This was life! Not the killing and the terrified screams of dying men suddenly facing the awesome spectre of their own mortality. No, but to face his fears as a man, to stand at the brink of the abyss and refuse to be cowed or beaten down.

I remember an old teacher of mine once saying that behind every dark cloud the sun was just waiting to boil you to death.

The world was changing, and he was running out of places to hide.

War. Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror.

The battle between good and evil is circular. Good wins, evil wins, good again.

What is the point, then, of dying when the cause is already lost? What is the point of living without a cause worth dying for?

You did not kill those children, and you could not have saved them. There is a limit to the power of any single man, even a hero. You were the boy who fought the bear. Now you are the man who killed the king. Yet you are only a man. You are not responsible for the woes of the world or the evil of other men.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find. A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness

A man takes what the gods thrust upon him.

Evil lives in a pit.

A man must fight for life even when he believes all is lost.

Life is unfair. Do you think your enemies will sit back and wait until you are fresh? Learn to marshal your strength.

The greatest day-to-day enemy of the poor is the middle-class bureaucrat who contemptuously treats them as data to be processed, without care to their needs or circumstances

After the past few months of the world heaping ordure on Libra

Someone starts building war power—power to insure peace, as they always say. Then other systems must have power to protect themselves. Strength begets force—and fear and hatred. Sooner or later, the strain is too great, and you have a war so horrible that its very horror makes surrender impossible.

Hella isn't easy, but Captain Skyler says life isn't easy. If it were easy, everybody would do it. Death is what you do if you're not up for the challenge.

With all due respect to this court, we've had to deal with so many other monkeys in so many other courtrooms, we felt it was only appropriate to bring in our own, so we could compete on equal terms.