Quotes About Struggle

He felt his arms ache and, looking down, saw that the girl had stopped struggling. There came that point, that sudden, blissful point, when it was useless to go on living, and when the mind and body came to accept that such was the case. That was a beautiful, peaceful moment, the most relaxed moment of one's life.

Fifteen years, and all he had to show were an amount of self-pity and a busted marriage with an innocent daughter hanging between them. It was more disgusting than sad.

No sooner had he finished with a case than another two or three appeared in its place. What was the name of that creature? The Hydra, was it? That was what he was fighting. Every time he cut off a head, more popped into his in-tray. Coming back from a holiday was a nightmare. And now they were giving him rocks to push up hills as well.

I'm caught, he thought, between a cushion and a soft place

He had to get off the booze. He had to get off the ciggies. They were killing him, yet they were the only things keeping him alive.

when the shit was heading fanwards.

What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?

Down Where the Drunkards Roll." "How

Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.

Thing about that ladder, Shiv, each rung you climb there's another arse waiting to be licked." "What a lovely image." "We all need some poetry in our lives.

If it were a peg, you couldn't hang a fucking hankie on it, never mind your coat.

John Martyn on instead, Grace and Danger

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing." "You mean you went to an expensive school?

Rebus reminded himself to stop praying. Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

Lucrul cel mai simplu pe care îl ai de f?cut atunci când trebuie s? te miÅŸti, dar nu poÅ£i evada, este s? oscilezi.

Man after the second half of the twentieth century is frustrated. You know that the foundation of all subversiveness is laid on frustration and this frustration keeps finding ways to subversive activities. And you also know that an uncert...ain present has made man pessimistic about future... therefore he runs after anything that glitters, be it fire

I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shot Hoes I ain't caught Or shit I ain't bought.

An emotional debt is hard to square.