Quotes About Struggle

I get mad at everyone because they are working, living. Sometimes I hate you because you're not dying. Isn't that awful?

Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat? Who doesn't have at least one pair of wax wings out in the garage?

It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . .

It was as though a choir had been told not to sing harmoniously, but to sing their own songs, and to ensure that they were heard above the rest. I'm sure you can imagine what a deafening cacophony it would be.

C'è chi viene portato alla meta da un vento veloce, e chi, al contrario, si macera in un'insopportabile bonaccia. C'è

Everything that's worth having in life hurts like the devil. There's no way round that.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

that at all. We're so used to failure, to being hurt and rebuffed, that we can easily come unhinged by success.

I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

and at night my dreams are full of the cursing of me fucking god fucking me.

come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

America made us heroines not wives. We hid our ladyness to save our lives

you have your own story you know about the fears the tears the scar of disbelief you know that the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves you know how dangerous it is to be born with breasts you know how dangerous it is to wear dark skin

and we hang onto our no place happy to be alive and in the inner city or like we call it home

i bear witness to no thing more human than hate i bear witness to no thing more human than love

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.