Quotes About Struggle

Miracles were not given, they were earned.

Under her restlessness and licentious pose is a repressed wholesomeness that will always make her regret devaluing herself, which, even in these strange times, he believes is true of more people than not.

stink of urine and feces. Four or five of the sleepers, unable to rise

THE WORLD IS FULL of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

The vision has passed, but he feels as though he is standing above a void, with nothing to support him, that his fall is about to begin, that he'll shatter his bones on the bloody rack and ruin below.

The cold tide of evil rises relentlessly. Although the dikes that resist it can be built higher, the power of such an insistent tide is greater even than the power of a deep sea of water; though perhaps nothing can stand against Evil forever, there is at least a kind of honor in undertaking the effort to restrain the ultimate flood as long as possible.

I wish I could believe in reincarnation," I said. "Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In this crazy future tumbling like an avalanche straight at us, the ambitions of two people didn't amount to a hill of beans.

Earth's creatures other than humankind. Their lives are short and hard and ever shadowed by threat, and they endure periods of hunger when in their foraging they find nothing, and they persevere through sickness without understanding what it is they suffer, and they have seen others devoured by something bigger with sharper teeth. Yet in spite of all they have to fear, they sleep as if they are safe when unconscious, and they wake to each new day with enthusiasm.

Grief thrived in a quiet heart, and right now hers thundered with terror and revulsion

We have a weight to carry and a distance we must go. We have a weight to carry, a destination we can't know. We have a weight to carry and can put it down nowhere. We are the weight we carry from there to here to there. —The Book of Counted Sorrows

where the moon and stars do not exist, where the sun will never rise, where the path is ever downward, yet he descends in a desperate search, for

A novena to the darkness

Her stories are often dark but never spiral into nihilism.

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

Shacket has been in a foul mood since leaving Cedar City. Mile by mile, the arid Mojave leaches out of him what little human kindness has not been drained away by the endless injustices he has suffered.

I was born under a glass heel, and have always lived there,'" Tim quoted.

attempted to shoot?

His third never made the list, sold fifteen thousand copies, and was savaged by critics.

the rejection hurt.

Membela diri adalah salah satu dorongan yang paling kuat yang diberikan Tuhan kepada kita. Kita diciptakan untuk bertahan hidup, walaupun jika kita harus membunuh seseorang dalam prosesnya. Tina

That is the Promise she made, to live for them. But she has been doing little more than surviving.

The correct question has three equal parts. What's wrong with humanity? Then…what's wrong with nature, with its poison plants, predatory animals, earthquakes, and floods? And last…what's wrong with cosmic time, as we know it, which steals everything from us?