Quotes About Struggle

Everything's going along as usual and then all shit breaks loose," one said. The injured man made no response, nor could he, since he had a trach.

I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself seems increasingly obscure.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded by happiness.

What I have made for myself is personal, but is not exactly peace.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

Things happened in life that mothers could not prevent or fix.

You see what the world of Michael Laski is: a minor but perilous triumph of being over nothingness.

We were seeing the desperate attempt of a handful of pathetically unequipped children to create a community in a social vacuum.

You see what the word of Michael Laski is: a minor but perilous triumph of being over nothingness.

I would like you to believe that I kept working out of some real professionalism, to meet the deadline, but that would not be entirely true; I did have a deadline, but it was also a troubled time, and working did to the trouble what gin did to the pain.)

Trabajo cincuenta horas semanales y reconozco que a veces no tengo tiempo para «ser todo lo que puedo ser»

It is difficult in the extreme to continue fancying oneself Cathy in Wuthering Heights with one's head in a Food Fair bag.

August comes on not like a month but like an affliction.

In just such self-doubts do small towns lose their character.

Because I had been tired too long and quarrelsome too much and too often frightened of migraine and failure and the days getting shorter

What's the matter, Maria said, standing in the doorway in the dark. It isn't any better. How do you know. He said nothing, I mean we didn't even try. You don't want it. I do too. No, he said. You don't.

I had not been able to work in some months, had been paralyzed by the conviction that writing was an irrelevant act, that the world as I had understood it no longer existed.

I remember wishing that I could afford the house, which cost $ 1,000 a month. "Someday you will," she said lazily. "Someday it all comes." There in the sun on her terrace it seemed easy to believe in someday, but later I had a low-grade afternoon hangover and ran over a black snake on the way to the supermarket and was flooded with inexplicable fear when I heard the checkout clerk explaining to the man ahead of me why she was finally divorcing her husband.

In other words she was wrenched, even as she hung between death and life and later between insentience and sentience, into New York's ideal sister, daughter, Bacharach bride: a young woman of conventional middle-class privilege and promise whose situation was such that many people tended to overlook the fact that the state's case against the accused was not invulnerable.

Les naufrages

La meva salut és excel·lent, però estic carregat de romaços com una criatura malaltissa.

I knew from experience that events tend to gang up on you. It's not one straw that breaks the camel's back - it's the cumulative straws piling up and weighing you down. - Kiki Lowenstein

If you scream, people say you're melodramatic; if you submit, you're masochistic; if you call names, you're a bitch. Hit him and he'll kill you. The best thing is to suffer mutely and yearn for a rescuer, but suppose a rescuer doesn't come?

Alas, it was never meant for us to hear. It was never meant for us to know. We ought never be taught to read. We fight through the constant male refractoriness of our surroundings; our souls are torn out of us with such shock that there isn't even any blood. Remember: I didn't and don't want to be a 'feminine' version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.