Quotes About Struggle

Cho? ju? tyle razy prze?y?em m?k? i ?mier? Chrystusa, nieodmiennie niepokoj? si? o Jego zmartwychwstanie - jestem przera?ony, ?e w tym roku si? to nie uda.

Sempre há suicídios entre as pessoas que não conseguem dizer o que querem

THERE'S LIFE ON EARTH, THERE'S HEAVEN—AND THERE'S HELL." "I think life on earth is hell," I said.

Why do we need them if we hate them?" the daughter tiredly asked. "We hate them because we need them," the mother answered, her speech slurred.

In the World according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.

There are always suicides," Garp wrote, "among people who are unable to say what they mean.

No, it's never easier. The new book doesn't know the first four were ever written.

My brain is sending poison to my heart, he told Homer...

Reality, for orphans, is so often outdistanced by their ideals

The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who can walk on their hands.

Quoting Kurt Vonnegut: Free Enterprise is much too hard on the old and the sick and the shy and the poor and the stupid, and on people nobody likes.

THINK OF HARDY AS A MAN WHO WAS ALMOST RELIGIOUS, AS A MAN WHO CAME SO CLOSE TO BELIEVING IN GOD THAT WHEN HE REJECTED GOD, HIS REJECTION MADE HIM FEROCIOUSLY BITTER.

A cripple's life is one of watching others do what he can't do

And when he was privileged to witness the miracle of Owen Meany, my bitter father could manage no better response than to whine to me about his lost faith—his ridiculously subjective and fragile belief, which he had so easily allowed to be routed by his mean-spirited and self-imposed doubt. What a wimp he was, Pastor Merrill; but how proud I felt of my mother—that she'd had the good sense to shrug him off.

IF YOU'RE A VICTIM, THE WORLD WILL USE YOU.

Unrevised, real life is just a mess.

My father was not a brave or an honorable man; but he had once tried to be brave and honorable. He had been afraid, but he had dared—in his fashion—to pray for Owen Meany; he had done that pretty well.

When he finished reading this passage, Pastor Merrill lifted his face to us and cried out, "'I believe; help my unbelief!' Owen Meany helped my 'unbelief,'" my father said. "Compared to Owen Meany, I am an amateur—in my faith," Mr. Merrill said. "Owen was not just a hero to the United States Army—he was my hero," my father said.

Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

Graham Greene

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I'm crying too much- I can't see where I'm going, Daddy,' Ruth told him again. 'But that's the test, Ruthie. The test is, sometimes there's no place to pull over- sometimes you can't stop, and you have to find a way to keep going. You got it?' 'Got it,' she said. 'So,' her father said, 'now you know everything.

What young writer is attracted to a sunny disposition?

He'd known only that, in the end, the Force hadn't helped her. Or any of the other Jedi he'd heard about.