Quotes About Struggle

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

La locura, cuando se le estrujan los dedos, hace piruetas increíbles, que dan vértigos, y es fuerte como el amor y la muerte.

Con los mellizos pareció haber concluido la aterradora descendencia. Pero pasados tres años desearon de nuevo ardientemente otro hijo, confiando en que el largo tiempo transcurrido hubiera aplacado a la fatalidad.

Vezzera me miró como miran los tuberculosos condenados al reposo, a un hombre fuerte que no se jacta de ello. Y en realidad, creo que ya se precipitaba su tisis. Se

Usted sabe qué terrible fuerza de atracción tiene el suicidio, cuando la idea fija se ha enredado en una madeja de nervios enfermos.

En lo que no tiene razón. Que me guste desesperadamente, muy bien. Pero que vaya yo a exigir el pago de un pagaré de amor firmado sobre una carpeta de meningitis, ¡diablo! eso no.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

tr?im într-o ?ar? în care nu r?ul este umbra binelui, ci binele este umbra r?ului, o ?ar? în care, a?a cum spunea Ernest Bernea dup? ce a ie?it din lunga sa închisoare politic?, oamenii nu pot fi decît ori cîini b?tu?i, ori lichele.

Acesta este infernul: eternitatea r?ut??ii, eternitatea erorii, imposibilitatea binelui, imposibilitatea r?scump?r?rii.

A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.

People who think that they have no chance and use that as an escape route... have no hope in life.

Maybe it's impossible for people to live their lives without hurting anyone.

One who has known only a sweet and easy life could never do anything to move another's soul. That goes for the observer as well. That's why hardship isn't without its merits, either. I'm sure this will be a trying time for you. You may face even more trying times in the future. But whether you choose to make it your leg-iron or your shield is all up to you.

A desgraça só atinge o paroxismo quando se esteve muito próximo da felicidade.

The truth was never easy, and it was never simple, and it had a way of breaking your heart. Thus men chose its imitation whenever possible and made the world fit the shape that suited them best. Smith believed man created God and Truth both in his own image, and he attached no blame to that. He had long ago decided that most people got along as best they could, trying to be brave, trying to be good, trying to subdue the terrors of life with whatever expectations lay easiest to hand.

I wish I were not sensual... I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp and be grasped, because it drives me into the arms of idiots who want to crush me. Wonderful, idiotic, crushing in the night. Can't you just crush me in the night?

Idiot, yes. All my life I struggled. That is the mark of an idiiot.

Of such rejected pieces of ourselves are our devils made.

To be black is to be a dissident.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

We are all victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, 'I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and i'm going to try to make myself a life worth living.

When we realize, really get to know what stinkers we are, it takes only a little depression to tip the scales in favor of suicide. - Dr. Walter Freeman (62)

my earliest memories of the snow are unhappy ones. I stepped into a snow drift that was so deep I sank in up to my waist and couldn't get out.

When you've been at the bottom, nothing looks that bad, and I had been at the bottom for quite a while. The bottom was normal for me. But the bottom got worse.