Quotes About Struggle

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and it has no relation to your heart's desires.

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

I don't know why I can't let the insults go, but I can't. I'm the product of every hurt that's ever been laid on me.

Death is not a choice, even for the suicide.

Can't make a life and death decision when you are fighting off what I call choice-vertigo

Death is every mortal's life to be alive!

Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.

But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.

Survival is running from death.Our whole life is running from death, but we all just meet it while we are running from it! what a failure is this try!

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.

I am going to be murdered.It wasn't any easier to face in the daytime.

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.'Tatsu.

I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.

Jest when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.

I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.

[G]ive him this much: death didn't just walk up and inhale him. He wasn't exactly whisked away. He left claw marks on his life.

He had defended himself against death from without, and then it had carried him off from within.

Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.

Ah yes, a great victory, this 'sport'. I am sure El Toro appreciates the applause Jumping in the Puddles of Life

I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.