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Quotes About Struggle

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
~ Thomas Carlyle
National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.
~ Elliott Smith
You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
~ Emily Bronte
With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
~ Thomas Browne
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.
~ Euripides
All fates are 'worse than death'.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Surviving is much more painful than death.
~ Tom Clancy
It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.
~ Tonya Hurley
I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.
~ Vernor Vinge
I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me.
~ William Dunbar
Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.
~ William Shakespeare
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.
~ Langston Hughes
La tristesse durera toujours.]
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
~ Langston Hughes
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
~ Oscar Wilde
I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.
~ Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
~ Robert Frost
The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone...
~ Munia Khan
I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.
~ Colleen Hoover, Confess
Death had touched her, hurt her, and left her to deal with its disagreeable aftermath.
~ Zoe Forward, Hooked On A Witch
Death has a life which kills everybody's life
~ Munia Khan