Quotes About Struggle

There were times when he felt the lure of a submoronic mode of being.

I'd been doing this for a while, attempting to define a word for an object or even a concept. Define loyalty, define truth. I had to stop before it killed me. The

One eventually had to confront it. Wasn't Hitler's own struggle to express himself in German the crucial subtext of his massive ranting autobiography, dictated in a fortress prison in the Bavarian hills? Grammar and syntax. The man may have felt himself imprisoned in more ways than one.

The life of a star of this type and magnitude. Isn't the life structured to cut you down early? This is the point, isn't it? There are rules, guidelines. If you don't have the grace and wit to die early, you are forced to vanish, to hide as if in shame and apology.

Living defensively is the central theme of our age. How else can we live? Biologically we've instructed ourselves in the deepest way possible that living in a defensive manner is the only way we'll survive, both in theme and fact.

But there are different kinds of death, David. And I prefer that kind, his kind, to the death I've been fighting all my life.

These things happen to poor people who live in exposed areas. Society is set up in such a way that it's the poor and the uneducated who suffer the main impact of natural and man-made disasters. People

Forse in quella metropoli la folla era davvero essenziale all'individuo, perché senza di essa non c'era nulla contro cui rivolgere la propria rabbia, mancava l'eco del proprio dolore, si dissolveva ogni prova concreta dell'esistenza di persone ancora più sole al mondo.

I didn't call Marian. I felt a loneliness, for lack of a better word, but that's the word in fact, a thing I tried never to admit to and knew how to step outside of, but sometimes even this was not means enough, and I didn't call her because I would not give in, watching the night come down.

he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might have worked out for him...

Too many people, once they reach a comfortable position in life, forget the important role writers like Hammett — who dropped out of high school in his first year to work supporting his family — or Howard — struggling to break into the pulps with absolutely no professional advice and little encouragement — play in literature, just as they tend to ignore the role the working man and woman play in society.

If they haven't compromised themselves already, in their hearts they want to, because being true to one's art, keeping the dream alive, is utterly exhausting.

What drove him to kill himself, she says, was realizing that he would never have what I now possess–a life beyond the pursuit of art–because being an artist, a writer, means isolating yourself in a room for hours, days on end, going into the darkest parts of yourself, and really, what sane person would want to do that?

How can you explain that it's just that he was sad, that he'd been sad all his life, and he knew he'd always be sad?

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint

Anytime a church chooses to move forward, there will be conflict, because we are in a war.

The mind carries you with it, away from what you are supposed to do, toward things that cannot be explained rationally, toward difficulty, lack of clarity, late-afternoon light.

You are asking me to give up my sword? -I am. -Then I shall be swordless. Think what that means.

Anyone ambitious, who lives to be old or even old , endures the inevitable loss of ambition's fulfillment.

Life is hell but death is worse. - from No Deposit

Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I'm fucked.

It has not been easy for me

They're not after me, they're after you. I'm just in the way.