Quotes About Struggle

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Destiny and history are untidy.

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.