Quotes About Struggle

Life was generous: it gave a man a thousand things to be pissed off about.

The armored creatures wrestled one another, and when one seemed about to climb out of the basket and make its escape, the others would grab it and haul it back down into the endless battle.

Don't you ever just get tired of religion? Isn't it all just exhausting?" Padre Adriel considered him for a moment. He crossed his arms, then put a finger to his lips. "My friend," he said, "no one is more tired of religion than a priest.

I never said that. We'll all be hurt, child. We will all be hurt. What I said was: they shall not overpower you.

Each of these proud cabrones refusing to apologize for whatever they were mad about. Each one waiting for some sign. And Mama, in the middle, frantic. All she wanted was to see what was left of her family come together, before…Well, before.

Big Angel was aware of the sad steps of the dance. It cost him great effort to speak now. When you died, you died in small doses. You had trouble speaking. You forgot who was beside you. You were suddenly furious and in a panic of outrage. You wished you could be saintly. You wished you weren't so weak. You suddenly felt better and fooled yourself into believing that a miracle was about to happen. Well, wasn't that all a dirty rotten thing to pull on somebody.

Dead in Their Tracks by John Annerino

Progress might be inevitable, but there was no reason they should knuckle under without a fight.

A life was a long struggle to come to terms with things and to keep some things from others.

Deus e a Pátria são um time imbatível; eles quebram todos os recordes de opressão e derramamento de sangue.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

No eches de menos un destino más fácil

the world on all sides is bankrupt and that life is a business that does not cover the costs.

Em comparação com o que a mulher, historicamente, sofreu num mundo dominado por homens e seus terrores, o que ela sofre com a Natureza é pinto. Com trocadilhos".

Ubrzo je nanovo utvrdio da je njegova egzistencija sa?injena od fragmenata koji se me?usobno ne uklapaju, i svaki pokušaj da im se utvrdi neki redosljed bio bi jednak samotnoj igri na sre?u.

La humanidad es pesada

Each second is a raw drop of blood from your brain that you must swallow drop by drop and don't even start counting or you'll lose your mind...

If you're not white, you have to be brilliant, just to be considered acceptable.

yo creo que a mí no me tocó destino o si me tocó se me perdió en el camino

In a world of beings who don't exist, who self-destruct and erase themselves, perhaps one should make a valiant effort to at least draw oneself. Maybe that's where all the sex comes from- to feel real.

You know quite well that suffering can't be driven from the world by violence. Nor can it be wiped out by bread, work, and welfare. You do know that, don't you? You yourself are full of tears that cannot be wiped away.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...

Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.

I am so far removed, from everything, that I can't even cry. There's a chasm between me, where I am, and the world I am in. The world I move my feet through. The atmosphere I breathe is like golden syrup, twenty-seven atmospheres thick. I'm wading through the world, consumed with … consumed. And I'm wading through the swamp that my body has become.