Quotes About Struggle

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.

The gods are what has failed to become of us

what I live for I can seldom believe in

I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up

As long as I try, there's always a chance of getting up. It's not the end until you give up.

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

Sometimes I have no choice but to wear my hair and I try to make it look as normal as possible, but no, there's no chance.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you wouldn't want to know. But anyway, I'm glad I had that chance to build my craft.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

You look the conflict with your ego & i look the same conflict with thought.Your ego never gives me a second chance..we are left to suffer!

I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble.

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

There are no sides in suicide.

We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.

He's throwing everything he can into the air on the chance that something might take flight. And we're the smallest, weakest bird.