Quotes About Struggle

I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of sh.. that it demanded.

I find it hard living in a day and age where people are unwilling to accept who they really are.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Last, but by no means least, courage - moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle - the roar of the crowd on one side and the.

Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will mend, this is every day getting worse.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Some refer to it as a cultural Chernobyl. I think of it as a cultural Stalingrad.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.