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Quotes About Struggle

To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.
~ Carlos Castaneda
As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.
~ Marilyn Manson
EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH
~ Tupac Shakur
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Acceptance spells death to a writer.
~ Arundhati Roy
Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.
~ Unknown
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
~ John Keats
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
~ Thomas Hobbes
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
~ Denis Diderot
Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.
~ Frederick Lenz
It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.
~ Terry Pratchett
Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.
~ Victoria Laurie
I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.
~ Kate Beckinsale
I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
~ Antonin Artaud
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.
~ Suzanne Collins
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
~ Irving Stone
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
~ Francis Picabia
I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
~ Marcia Wallace
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
~ Harold Brodkey
I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.
~ Patton Oswalt
The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
~ Sylvia Plath
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?
~ C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.
~ Henri Barbusse