Quotes About Struggle

For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

Opposing the father is no picnic and not opposing the father is no picnic—that's what he was discovering.

She knew all she needed to know about the history of the human race: the ruthless and the defenseless. She didn't need the dates and the names. The ruthless and the defenseless, there's the whole fucking deal.

Homeless, wifeless, mistressless, penniless . . . jump in the cold river and drown.

She wanted to collapse and be rescued, and she wanted to be heroic and prevail, and she seemed to hate him most for reminding her, merely by taking it all in, that she could manage neither.

had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

All of European literature springs from a fight.

Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons.

Todo el mundo está insatisfecho, pero en general no se rompe, y, sobre todo, no rompen las personas que, a su vez, han sido abandonadas, como tú y tu hermano. Cuando pasas por lo que vosotros habéis pasado, valoras muchísimo la estabilidad, probablemente la valoras en exceso. Lo más difícil del mundo es cortar el nudo de tu vida y marcharte.

She's a fighter. She's fine. She's made tremendous strides." True—all the while he has been stoically enduring it she has made tremendous strides by finding it unendurable, by being devastated by it, destroyed by it, and then by denuding herself of it. She doesn't resist the blows the way he does; she receives the blows, falls apart, and when she gets herself up again, decides to make herself over.

Tu?i già không ph?i là má»™t tr?n chi?n; tu?i già là má»™t cuá»™c th?m sát

Wifeless, mistressless, penniless, vocationless, homeless . . . and now, to top things off, on the run.

if there weren't war, lunacy, perversity, sickness, imbecility, suicide, and death, chances were he'd be in a lot better shape.

The smile's refusal to recognize, let alone to sanction in himself, the savage obstinacy that seven decades of surviving requires of a man. As though anyone over ten believes you can subjugate with a smile, even one that kind and warm, all the things that are out to get you, with a smile hold it all together when the strong arm of the unforeseen comes crashing down on your head.

Sylvia Levov stoically and impatiently endured him, her only successful form of resistance being to freeze him out and live with the isolation—and see more of herself evaporating year by year.

Trabalho - Certas pessoas anseiam por trabalho, qualquer trabalho, por mais pesado e desagradável que seja, a fim de drenar a dureza de suas vidas e afastar da mente os pensamentos homicidas...

Something was on top of him that had called a halt to him. Something had turned him into a human platitude. Something had warned him: You must not run counter to anything.

Todo es un error -le dije-. ¿No es eso lo que me has estado diciendo? No existe más que error. Ahí está el meollo del mundo. Nadie encuentra su vida. Eso es la vida.

Pills and pain. Aldomet for my blood pressure and Zantac for my gut. A to Z. Then you die.

He was supposed to get through dinner not thinking about the only things he could think about. He was supposed to do this forever.

It's never been easy to say what you really are, Mickey." "Oh, failure will do." "But at what?" "Failure at failing, for one.

No es preciso tener una visión evolucionada de la vida para ansiar poder, ni para alcanzarlo. De hecho, una visión evolucionada de la vida puede ser el peor obstáculo, mientras que la carencia de esa visión puede ser la ventaja más espléndida.

that the Jews were victims before they were conquerors and that they are conquerors only because they are victims.

é straziante la violenza, quando scoppia in una casa: come vedere i vestiti su un albero dopo un'esplosione. puoi essere pronto a vedere la morte, ma non i vestiti sull'albero. E tutto per il fatto che mio padre non riusciva a capire che la natura di Alvin non era mai stata riformabile, nonostante i predicozzi e le minacce che l'affetto gli ispirava: tutto perché lo aveva preso in casa per salvarlo da ciò che semplicemente era nella sua natura diventare.