Quotes About Struggle

Burying something doesn't take away the weight of it. It only pushes the weight deeper and makes it harder to carry around.

The weight does not life itself, although over time it lightens. Sometimes we need to push. And sometimes that is very hard.

I've tried breaking things to feel better and found that it only feels better while things are breaking.

Cand prima dragoste se sfarseste, cei mai multi dintre oameni stiu ca vor veni si altele. N-au terminat cu iubirea. Iubirea nu a terminat cu ei. Nu va fi niciodata la fel ca prima, dar va fi mai buna in diferite feluri. Eu nu am o astfel de consolare. De asta ma agat din rasputeri. De asta e atat de greu.

I think the reason why people behave in an ugly manner is that it's really scary to be alive and to be human, and people are really really afraid.

War is both intensely horrible and exquisitely pleasurable. It is horrible because of the danger and suffering that soldiers and civilians endure, and the unavoidable guilt that comes with killing. It is pleasurable because -like all pleasures- it is something that benefited our ancient ancestors who were victors in the bloddy struggle for resources.

it is hard for many people to abandon the concept that human beings are angels imprisoned in earthly shells.

Violence has followed our species every step of the way in its long journey through time.

Song-Mi Lee,...her life wholly dedicated to protecting the great man against the importunities of the academic world and soothing his despair at no longer being able to achieve an erection or an original thought.

Cica in fiecare grasan se afla cate-un slabanog care se lupta sa iasa la lumina, iar eu unul ii aud strigatele inabusite ori de cate ori ma uit in oglinda.

The house is a place where things can go wrong.

These so-called bleak times are necessary to go through in order to get to a much, much better place.

Right here people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of—or because of—his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great—I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

it's a truth of life that some things are not built so well and they become complicated and they need to be figured out and they're hard to figure out.

Jennifer Lynch: My father deeply loved both of his parents, but he also despised all that goodness, the white picket fence and all that. He has a romantic idea of that stuff, but he also hated it because he wanted to smoke cigarettes and live the art life, and they went to church and everything was perfect and quiet and good. It made him a little nutty.

Bushnell helped a lot during those years, but, generally, being a teenager wasn't that great for me. Being a teenager is so euphoric and thrilling, but it's mixed with a kind of chain to jail, which is high school. It's such a torment.

Look at Van Gogh - The guy could not sell one painting and now nobody can afford them

and a knell rang in the ears of the victors, even in their hour of triumph. —Winston Churchill, 1927

Henoch has passed from the childhood stage of unfettered adoration for his father and has moved to a difficult point of feeling that every demand on his person is a deeply rooted injustice. Cain grimaces at the remembered familiarity of THAT.

You have some great sadness about you. I don't know where it comes from or what form it takes but you must pass through it and leave it behind. --- Some things are simpler to say that to do.

The prospect of going home again scared them. They couldn't imagine how they could ever settle to it. How they could just walk around the streets and pretend to be normal, look women in the eye again after what they had done and seen, ride on trams, sit at a table with a white cloth, and control their hands and just slowly eat. It was the little things that scared them. The big things you could hide in. It was little ones that gave a man away.

This new lot...they too would go down. They were 'troops' who were about to be 'thrown in,' 'men' in some general's larger plan, 're-enforcements ' and would soon be 'casualties'. They were also Spud, Snow, Skeeter, Blue, Tommo.

She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.

An American will fight for three things.'" "…a girl," Sam said. "Yes. A girl, himself, or 'to save the world.