Quotes About Struggle

Very quickly I begin to understand the selfishness of my love, the inappropriateness of my relationships, when I realise that every time I fuck it feels as if I am wrestling with demons.

I'm hurling all the little joys against the greater sadness. The sadness is a giant weight. It presses down. Its mean: "What's the point?

I can no longer cry. I groan a few times. Through the slits that are my eyes, I stare at my shoes, at the gray swirls of the concrete floor, at the bright orange lid of my syringe. And I realize—it's a kind of horror—that this is my life. And I can't stop. I just can't stop. I can't stop anymore.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

I tell my life's story for that humble reason which has inspired every user of the form: to prove to the world I am a great man. I shall fail, of course, like the others.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

Resistance never disappears; it waits in the shadows, sometimes for many years, and then eventually sprouts again. You may have gone through dark times when you felt, "I just can't fight this anymore, I give up," yet you rebound after a while to try again to recover your rights. And one day you will succeed.

The abusive man has another reason to exaggerate and ridicule his partner's statements (and mine): He wants to avoid having to think seriously about what she is saying and struggle to digest it.

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.

When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

Esto es lo que me pasó a mí. Pensé que tenía normas. Yo creía en mis absolutos. Lo hice para la mayoría de las situaciones. Entonces no lo hice. Conforme pasó el tiempo, mi mundo se volvió gris y mis absolutos se oscurecieron. El bien y el mal se disolvieron en lo que sabía que tenía que hacer.

It was easier to talk about nothing than something. Because something was too terrible to discuss. Too dark and terrible to even think about.

it seems like a disaster, but somehow it all comes together at the last minute, and you make it through.

The book breathless is so sad but at the begging it is happy and the part that I'm at is sad because the guy that has cancer he wants to kill his self it is so sad I just kind of like it right know but it is sad to me and when I make kids read it when I have kids it will be so cool.

I have as much input to the blues I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

I smile. No plan can take everything into account. Other people will raise their heads, others will desert. Time will go on spreading victory and defeat among those who pursue the struggle. I sip with satisfaction. We deserve the warmth of baths. May the days be aimless. Do not advance the action according to a plan.

You're wrong Heinrich. While it might seem easy to believe, you and I aren't actually the same. You've been fighting someone else's war, you've been obeying orders, you've been carrying out a part in his plan. You've served other people all your life, for a goal that you won't even see accomplished: that's your defeat.

Eravamo seminatori solerti, che accendevano la scintilla della guerra contro gli usurpatori della gloria di Dio, i pensatori del Suo popolo.

God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.

deito-me para sofrer menos, refugiada nas lembranças para não ter de tomar decisões na vida, mergulhar no passado para não enfrentar o futuro. Ou para entender o presente? É tão vazio o meu presente. O conflito, por menor que seja, hoje em dia desgasta-me demasiado. Prefiro vegetar.

Mas é necessário cortar com o que ele eventualmente tem de sufocante: pois pode ser também jaula, voragem, fundo de poço. Se ficarmos demais presos, teremos de nos puxar pelos próprios cabelos para outro espaço onde mesmo com susto e incertezas a gente possa respirar e decidir o que fazer agora.

War-waging and peace-making are as old as ants and apes.