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Quotes About Struggle

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
So what's on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
When you are getting beat to death, get your head out of the mixer.
~ Unknown
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
~ Virginia Woolf
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.
~ Unknown
Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.
~ Charles Darwin
The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.
~ George Washington Carver
Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?
~ James Dashner
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
~ John Dryden
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
~ Dan Brown, Inferno
Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
~ Layne Staley
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.
~ Richard Adams
I was definitely high-fiving death a couple of times.
~ Kid Cudi
On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.
~ Soseki Natsume
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
~ Jean Cocteau
I'll hit you so hard you'll starve to death rolling!
~ Jim Cornette
A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.
~ Kurt Cobain
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
~ Rupert Brooke
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
~ Frederic Chopin
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
~ Emile M. Cioran
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
~ Jack Kerouac
What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.
~ Arundhati Roy