Quotes About Struggle

Šta to tražimo u tu?oj zemlji, osim svoje i tu?e nesre?e.

Nezadovoljstvo je kao zvijer, nemocna kad se rodi, strasna kad ojaca.

War's a cruel but honest struggle, as between animals. Life in peace is cruel struggle, but a dishonest one, as between men.

A strah i nemoc radjaju niske nagone.

Puis, titubants, nous émergeâmes de l'ombre épaisse dans une autre moins dense, je compris que c'était la nuit, passagère - ce qui n'est pas éternel est si beau -, la nuit et la pluie d'été, je voulus tendre les mains pour qu'elle me lave de la boue souterraine, pour qu'elle éteigne ma fièvre, mais mes bras pendaient inertes, inutiles.

U?imo se ponovo da živimo. Nespretno u po?etku, ali željno i gladno

Zatvorio sam se, postao opsa?ena tvr?ava o koju su strijele uzalud udarale. Nije mi prijatelj, ili je ?udan prijatelj koji mi sije?e korijenje, potkopava temelje. Nema prijateljstva me?u ljudima koji druk?ije misle.

Boli me glava od pi?a i noga zbog gelera. Za glavobolju sam ja kriv, za geler u nozi nisam: dobio sam ga u borbi za pomjenu svijeta. Glavobolju sam dobio žele?i da sa svijetom uspostavim prisnost. Sad mislim kako je možda lakše mijenjati svijet nego sa njim postati prisan.

Ali mi se, ipak, nadamo boljemu, uvijek, više vjerujemo svojoj želji nego svome strahu, i obi?no s pravom

Može biti r?avo kad ?ovjek ne osje?a da je vrijeme dugo. U ratu nije dosadno, ni u nesre?i, ni u muci. Kad je teško, nije dosadno.

Sad smo jednaki, unesre?ili su nas zli ljudi.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost.

I know they're not like that now. If you asked me what happened between them," she said finally, "I don't know if I could tell you. But of course, nobody asked me." Her voice dropped low now, and she turned to look for the bus. "Your mother and father are both dreamers," she said, her back still turned. "That's what brought them together, and that's what's tearing them down. You'll always have to wake up at some point. And if you not ready for woke-up love, it'll break your heart.

when a man can't be proud of himself, he looks to the woman. If she's not something to be proud of, she'll pay double for both of them. I learned that the hard way.

The everything of womanhood carries no reward at all. And yet, everything still has to get done. So you keep working and you stop waiting, but the hope is still there, tucked in a corner. Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps you going—the hope that that someone—that one person—will applaud.

With every form of slavery that has ended, new ones emerge that are more personal and sinister than the older forms.

Nothing is easy in life. No plans were ever unhindered.

But tonight I finally made the connection that change always strolled hand in hand with loss, with upheaval, and that I would always feel it keenly because in the end, I did not live under the same sky as most other people. (p179)

Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.

I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. —Friedrich Nietzsche

Looking at the shell of a young life, she always felt a stab in the heart. And in this job, grief didn't lurk—it swarmed. She now tried to dodge the creeping pain and analyze the scene with fresh eyes.

I want to tell him that everything is a mess, that I hate the in-between space, that my feet ache for the ground, that a very small, very scared part of me wants to touch the sky, and that that is maybe the worst thing of all.