Quotes About Struggle

Blood oozed from deep puncture wounds at his neck and shoulder. His right arm flopped unnaturally. From the middle of his back to his waist, the bear's raking claws left deep, parallel cuts. It reminded Harris of tree trunks he had seen where bears mark their territory, only these marks were etched in flesh instead of wood. On the back of Glass's thigh, blood seeped through his buckskin breeches. Harris

How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

A secret that has been buried too long, eating a hole in me, worms its way to the surface, like a swimmer who can't hold his breath any longer.

As it sometimes happened, the good suffered for the faults of the bad.

To surrender to callousness or despair in the face of such sorrow was to be revealed as its accomplice.

At first I was surprised by how hard it was for our church to navigate all this.

It had obsessed his father and caused his death. It had briefly obsessed Pétur before he had tried to put it behind him. It had obsessed Agnar and the foreign Lord of the Rings fans, and it had obsessed Hákon. No possessed Hákon. Only his grandfather, Högni, had had the

Alcoholics don't have relationships-they take hostages.

Everyone thinks I'm so strong. They expect me to face autumns and winters like that and bitch-slap them down; make them come to heel. I'm not so strong. I only pretend.

We need the darkness to appreciate the light, and the bumps along the road to stop us falling asleep at the wheel.

For a moment something struggles inside her. Then her mind empties and she surrenders. Fighting fate is too difficult. She must save herself to fight whatever fate throws up.

Why give me this life and then give me this disease? Why give me joy and beauty of you and Charlie and then snatch it away? It's like showing someone a glimpse of what life could be like and in the next breath telling them that it can never happen

There is a moment when all hope disappears, all pride is gone, all expectations, all faith, all desire.

Some people are born to suffer. It never stops for them, not for a second .... they are made for it - sustained by it.

How dare I complain. I was born in the right time and right place to the right family. I met a man and we built a life together. Yet sometimes even the most charmed existence can change in the blink of an eye, or turn on the length of an eyelash. One moment of indecision. A cancer cell. A rogue gene. A wrong turn. A red light. A drunk driver. A cruel piece of misfortune.

Her life is crumbling and she's holding it together like a child protecting a sandcastle from the waves.

Michael Leunig cartoon showing a tiny sad-eyed man with a noose around his neck. The rope was curled over a beam with a large bucket tied to the other end. As the man cried, his tears filled the bucket and lifted him higher and higher off the ground. Evie is that figure, standing on her tiptoes, filling a bucket with

Now it was time for others to take up the battle because he had given up trying to save or change the world. He simply wanted to survive it.

Her pale fat throat seems to have a fist inside it, moving up and down.

The three biggest lies in the world are these: it gets better; everything will be OK;

There's plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But

life is a three-course meal occasionally seasoned with shit but still edible.

The milk float has pulled out of a parking space and is only travelling a few miles per hour, but I'm in full flight and still in midair. I clip the front corner nearside mudguard and it feels like the entire All Black front row had driven me into the tarmac.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. J.R.R . TOLKIEN