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Quotes About Struggle

But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty;
~ John Milton
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
~ John Milton
Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.
~ John Milton
What reinforcement we may gain from hope, If not what resolution from despair.
~ John Milton
Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more then from himself can fly By
~ John Milton
Only supreme in misery!
~ John Milton
Out of such prison, though Spirits of purest light,   Purest at first, now gross by sinning grown.
~ John Milton
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell
~ John Milton
Out of our evil seek to bring forth good
~ John Milton
In this unhappy Mansion, or once more 269: With rallied Arms to try what may be yet 270: Regaind in Heav'n, or what more lost in Hell?
~ John Milton
At length from us may find, who overcomes 649: By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
~ John Milton
Dios proclama la paz, y ellos viven, no obstante, dominados por el odio y la enemistad y en perpetua lucha; se mueven crueles guerras y devastan la tierra para destruirse unos a otros, como si no tuvieran, y en esto deberían cifrar su unión, sobrados enemigos en el infierno que día y noche conspiran para su ruina.
~ John Milton
Horror y duda perturban sus confusos pensamientos y desde el fondo agitan el Infierno que su seno contiene, porque dentro de sí lleva el Infierno y a su entorno, y del Infierno no puede alejarse un solo paso, igualmente como tampoco puede de sí mismo huir aunque de lugar cambie.
~ John Milton
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:   Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.
~ John Milton
But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, that they may stumble on, and deeper fall
~ John Milton
Hay alguien que ame el dolor? ¿Quién, hallando un camino, no huiría del infierno aunque estuviese a él condenado?
~ John Milton
Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King:
~ John Milton
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
~ John Milton
Depression is good at making you think it's not even there and that you are the problem. Depression wants you to think you made a choice to be this way.
~ John Moe
What do you have to be stressed about?" the normies might have said, if I ever talked about these things with normal people. "You have a family, a house, a car, a good job. Just deal with it!" As if I could simply do that. As if I chose this. As if I looked at the options available to me and they were clearly labeled "Perseverance" and "Freaking the Fuck Out All the Time" and calmly said, "Mmm, yes, I select option B.
~ John Moe
Depression steals your ability to feel happy and proud even at the moments you should be happiest and proudest.
~ John Moe
Depression lies," said Jenny Lawson . "Because every single time, it says, 'You'll never come out of this again. You are absolutely worthless, your family is better off without you.' And then I remind myself depression lies. Those things are lies.
~ John Moe
Depression does its damage and then it hides, covering its tracks, making you think that it is not an illness, that you're just bad and weird.
~ John Moe
I didn't know that depression isn't a mood. It's a set of conditions that cause a whole series of thoughts and behaviors to happen over a long period of time, often things that are wildly different from one another.
~ John Moe