Quotes About Struggle

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind's knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I've placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back - are illusions. They are not real - they never have been. See only the good that you desire in your mind.

Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.

What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.