Quotes About Struggle

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

Math is easy; design is hard.

Stumbling is not falling.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of change.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.