Quotes About Struggle

It's just men making an art out of their wish to beat each other up," she

They'll use a pair of clubs to beat the spades

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the grandmother of desperation.

I hate violence. I hate injustice more. I just want to be a fry cook, but the world demands more from me than eggs and pancakes.

In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invisible, we have a daily darkness that is night, and we encounter another darkness from time to time that is death, the deaths of those we love, but the third and most constant darkness that is with us every day, at all hours of every day, is the darkness of the mind, the pettiness and meanness and hatred, which we have invited into ourselves, and which we pay out with generous interest.

Stay with me, God. The night is dark, The night is cold: My little spark Of courage dies. The night is long; Be with me, God, and make me strong.

Like all of us, I was born for joy. This broken world, however, breaks most of us, grinding relentlessly on its metaled tracks.

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

Pain is all I know. He murmured. Peace is all I want

I suspected eccentricity was often if not always a response to pain, a defense mechanism against anguish and torment and sorrow.

Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

Home is where you struggle, in a world of endless struggle, to become the best you can be, and it becomes home in your heart only if one day you can look back and say that, in spite of all your faults and failures, it was in this special place where you began to see, however dimly, the shape of your soul.

He had to lie to himself about life, pretend it was less hard than it really was, and then press forward by one slippery means or another, all the while deluding himself into believing that he was conquering the world.

La oscuridad devora la brillante luz del día. La oscuridad exige y siempre gana. La oscuridad escucha, observa, espera. La oscuridad reclama el día que celebra. A veces en el silencio llega la oscuridad. A veces con un alegre repique de campanas.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts: the moonless midnight of the mind.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

She'd been living in a prison since the day she'd been born, even after leaving her mother, a prison of fear and shame and lowered expectations, and she'd been so accustomed to her circumscribed life that she had not recognized the bars.

There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.

You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that you have done. Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.

If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.

But just when a man expects he's earned the littlest bit of milk and honey, the world throws a load of horseshit at him.

Sometimes your life rolls away with you, like a big stone going downhill fast

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

I am getting the chaos I wanted. The problem is, you can switch the chaos on, but chaos itself is in control of the off switch.