Quotes About Struggle

You never live an inch without involvement and hurting people and fucking yourself everlastingly.

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?

Ghetel was clawing at the rotten bark on the underside of the big fallen tree that sheltered them. Bark debris and wood-punk kept falling on the blanket. Ghetel, a silhouette against the half-light, would scrabble in the decaying wood for a moment, then pause and put something to her mouth

Without temptation the soul cannot grow.

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.

The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

It's a choice: Either you try to make it look easy or you emphasize how hard it is.

JANEANE GAROFALO: Life is a boys club.

FRED WOLF: No one goes to Hollywood to meet their future husband or wife, or buy a house and have kids. They all go to Hollywood because they're kind of damaged and there's something they're searching for.

Depression: Is it a human condition one can live with or a condition on should succumb to?

The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

The more we discover our needs, the more we become aware that we cannot resolve them on our own. Nor can others, people like us. A sense of powerlessness accompanies every serious experience in our lives.

Ma se è una tela sporcata, tagliata e rotta, bisogna prima ricostituirla. Questo ricostituire, questo lavorare per ricostituire, che sarebbe persino un perdere tempo, questo è la croce.

Quando sei malinconica, quando sei arrabbiata, quando sei contro, quando sei piena di «forse», di «se», di «ma» e di «però», a che cosa aderisci? A niente, tendenzialmente a niente, e dunque sbagli: ti depauperi, ti svuoti. E, infatti, ciò che si incrementa è la solitudine.

Tant'è vero che il tentativo supremo di chi non vuol più accettare è quello di suicidarsi.

When they cry "Man overboard!" the oceanliner, as big as a house, stops all at once and the man they fish out with the ropes. But when a man's soul is overboard, when he drowns from horror and from desperation not even his own household stops but distances itself.

In the desert, we are all illegal aliens.

Lately," said Hubbard, "I have been considering language to be the enemy.

He hadn't enjoyed school all that much, but they could have warned him that language would prove overtaxing.

Everybody loves Jesus Christ, they just don't know what to do with Jesus Garcia.