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Quotes About Struggle

The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
~ Ban Ki-moon
My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
~ Unknown
She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Identical
Failure too is a form of death.
~ Graham Greene
Death and worse happened on the plains.
~ Larry McMurtry
Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I know death follows me, but I murder him first.
~ Tupac Shakur
Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
~ Horace
We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.
~ Cynthia Ozick
Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.
~ Hugo Chavez
Suicide is very contagious.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.
~ John Green
Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.
~ Lorrie Moore, Bark: Stories
Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.
~ Shan Sa, Empress
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.
~ William Shakespeare
For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.
~ C. S. Lewis
He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core.
~ Gena Showalter
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.
~ Ann Aguirre
The day I went into physics class it was death.
~ Sylvia Plath
He was struck by how lives diverge and by how powerless each of us is up against the force of circumstance. And where does God figure in this? Why does He set one person down in Nazi-occupied
~ Philip Roth
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
~ Philip Roth