Quotes About Struggle

I said that she had acted like a saint, but that since I was living in this real world I had really wanted just a mother.

Something settiled inside me, something heavy and hard. It stayed there, and i could not think of one thing to make it go away. I thought, So this must be living, this must be the beginning of the time people later refer to as 'years ago, when I was young'.

Jamela Dunbar

Unless we rise up against the dark side of evil, The Crown and The Spoon will not survive.

Yo soy un anima infeliz,Perdida en este mundo atormendo. I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

By twenty-six Hume had completed the first two volumes of A Treatise of Human Nature, 'the masterpiece which contains all that is most important in his thought'. The Treatise, though, was 'a complete failure', and there followed years of poverty and insignificance. Hume

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose.

No matter how hard he ran, how carefully he hid himself or what he might find as a weapon, he knew they would eventually locate him. It was as inevitable as the dark between the stars. And

What was it that Drask Silver Hand had said to him? Life is pain. Oh, how he lived just then.

Damned Weyland-Yutani piece of crap," she said.

Talking to that fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus!

It's hell... Just hell. It's just plain hell... But you gotta go through with it.

At moments I wonder whether those who go, as I do, for a Full Life, don't get their exact reward, which is that The Full Life is full of crap.

To own your life is hardly good Unless you own your livelihood: To own your livelihood's as bad If, in exchange, your life is had.

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the way home again in your life. And what's it all for? All I tried to be, all I ever wanted and went away for, what's it all for?