Quotes About Struggle

Planet Earth isn't a fair place. It's unfair in a broad variety of different ways, some worse than others, but it isn't fair. Not for anybody. And that's pretty much the fairest thing about it.

It's okay to hurt. It's not okay to fail the people who rely on me. That was my point of balance.

I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. I'm supposed to be the Jedi. - Harry Dresden

So many terrible things are done for love," Mab's voice said. "For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, and that right willingly.

Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary.

That's the difficult part of being mortal. Of having choice. Much is hidden from you.

You don't gain knowledge without a little pain.

I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser.

The man closed his eyes for a moment. Then he whispered, "My little girl was born early yesterday. She's still in the hospital. They couldn't move her." "Well," I said. "That makes it pretty simple. But that's not the same thing as easy, is it.

He didn't mention the other part of the book. That following the heroes when they set out was the tenth member of their party. A broken creature who went through all the same dangers and trials, who had made a single bad choice and taken up a power he didn't understand - and who had become a demented, miserable, living nightmare because of it. In the end, he had been just as necessary to the overthrow of the darkness. But he sure as hell didn't enjoy his part.

They're always too strong. There's always more of them, and they're always too strong.

I could taste the blood in my mouth, from where I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.

Finally, I said, very quietly, 'I don't know if I'm one of the good guys anymore.

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

I know what it's like to lose it.

of good confronting evil, of light overcoming darkness, of love transcending hate." He tilted his head. "Isn't that where all faith begins?

So there are things stacked against us," I said. "What else is new?

Planet Earth isn't a fair place. It's unfair in a broad variety of different ways, some worse than others, but it isn't fair. Not for anybody.

growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee.

staff cutbacks that meant nurses were working their asses off to cover the basics and, as a result, were barely maintaining a white-knuckled grip on civility. Bottom line: she hated hospitals for the same reason everyone else did. If she was in a hospital, it meant one of two things. She'd been hurt. Or someone she loved had been hurt.

I hope you're one of the good guys, Mr. Dresden. We really need a good guy. I

Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations. I

I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.

The real war happened when you weren't looking.