Quotes About Struggle

She runs her tongue over her teeth as she walks out the door, and feels an edge, something needing to be filed down before she bites her tongue. Dentist. Manicure. Makeup. Hair salon. She tastes blood, swallows it, pops a mint into her mouth. Small repairs. There's no woman alive who hasn't found the occasional hole in heaven, and carefully, meticulously, covered it back up.

They were the cream of the crop, but soon they'd be chaff, scythed from swordsmen into skeletons.

Here's the truth of the world, here it is. You're never everything anyone else wants. In the end it's going to be you, all alone, on a mountain, or you, all alone, in a hospital room. Love isn't enough and you do it anyway. Love isn't enough and it's still this thing that everyone wants.

For a moment, he felt for his old foes, fen-bound, embarking alone.

I'm not depressed. I'm fucked up. I have been since I can remember. There's not a version of my life that isn't fucked up.

The fight between them had to be according to the laws of the wild: the stronger would win. For good or for evil. Therefore, it wouldn't be right to attack Nana in one of her weak moments. If you really want to conquer evil, you have to face all its power and potential: you can't use trickery.

Jonas var dypt skuffet over de to andre. Han hadde måttet bøye seg for «overmakten» som han uttrykte det.

There are two of you- one who wants to write and one who doesn't. The one who wants to write better keep tricking the one who doesn't.

Die Ganzheit ist eine Wunschvorstellung der Nervenzerrüttung.

Becoming American meant rejecting one of the two worlds. It meant trying to hide the grease stains saturating the paper in which your school lunch of a fried potato and egg sandwich on crusty bread was wrapped, while the rest of your classmates ate ham on white bread with mayonnaise.

At the heart of being a second-generation American meant feeling the shame of your heritage and the sting of family betrayal, creating an inner turmoil from which one never fully escaped.

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

Violent love eats up what it does love, and it is mere appetite. I scribbled on the bottom of this before sending it back: I would sooner cut my own flesh than do you a hurt. You should not have tried to get between us! But only come to see me, and another time I will stand and let me beat to a mummy.

All I could do was to hold on tight to the sides of the chair, and keep myself from sucking his fingers. 'Would

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.

The moral degradation of the slave is, above all things, the weight that opposes the progress of humanity - humanity striving to rise and held back by this great burden. The cry of redemption speaks far more clearly for the souls of men than for their bodies.

The Shriver Report reveals this quiet reality: The people who we expect to raise us, care for us, and work to support us are too often left unsupported and uncared for.

You simply don't realize how much pain the human spirit can endure

When they're all here and they're loud and fighting, you wish for just a little bit of peace. Then they all leave at the same time, and the silence rips you apart.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

the image of the Good Life long ago stamped on her soul was quite different from this, and she suffered in contrast.

She was trying to decide to regard the black flies as a good symptom of the liveliness of the North, a sign that nature will never capitulate, that man is red in tooth and claw but there is something that cannot be controlled by him, when a critter no larger than a fruitfly tore a hunk out of her shin through her trousers.

when we're in emotional pain, we think it's a mistake, something that needs to be remedied. 'We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and fall apart. Then they come together and fall apart again. It's just like that.