Quotes About Struggle

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out.

Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people

As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity.The human spirit then dies and the animal in us returns.

Sometimes even the best of us have to lose ourselves in fantasy to survive reality.

In the middle of nowhere, a trunk heavy with gold is a burden, not treasure.

Perhaps Nesta will take up the blood-drinking habit, too. I certainly believe her threat to rip out my throat. Maybe she'll enjoy the taste.

You mistake us for abstaining your kind from undeserving happiness when all we do is to fight for our cause. We are soldiers, not rebels.

What has you roaring like a bull with his prick hung in a fence?

He didn't get it. That's exactly why I needed my Maker's Mark. You can't throw my life into turmoil, and then screw me out of my bourbon too.

I wish we would all just fall apart so I wouldn't have to listen to the downfall happen, so slowly, so painfully.

You are not one of Pentrigrel's creations. This is not where you belong. He will not keep his word to you. He is concerned only with himself. You cannot condemn yourself to this over Lunette's fate.

This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain, ' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her.

Yes, " he replied. "We are --- how do you say on Midgard -- between a hard place and tree.