Quotes About Struggle

was tugging now. But, while

And it occurred to Elliott, young as he was, that this might actually be the core contradiction of being human: born with the souls of angels – but mortal angels, meat angels, born to die and rot away. And that was maybe even the fundamental problem every human had to solve: how to live in a world where we are born to die.

Despair made you helpless. Despair got in the way of the mission. And it never helped. It was the sin that was not so much unforgivable as totally pointless.

Despair was the unforgivable sin. And he simply couldn't go out that way – he couldn't give up. If he was out of faith, he'd just have to push through it, and carry on. He'd fake it, if he had to.

Anything that you dont overcome will eventualy overtake you.

But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.

Y así como nunca eliminaremos el crimen ni la guerra, tampoco nos liberaremos jamás de la enfermedad.

the 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.

There's nothing more complicated – or fragile – than the relationship between parents and their children. It's like no other relationship there is. And no one tells you how to make it work. Either you find your way or you don't.

Michael Thomas Ford

i swear to God, that was the question. Sometimes, I think there's someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there's an angel or more likely a demon assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. well, today it got an A plus

This is the part where they try to make you remember," said Sadie. She looked at my wrists. "Is it working?" Without realizing it, I'd pushed one sleeve of my pajamas up and was rubbing the gauze that circled my wrist. I stopped, and let the sleeve fall back where it was.

I read once that a third of all gay kids try to kill themselves. They say it's because being gay is so hard in this world. They say that we won't stop trying to kill ourselves until more people understand us, and until we live in a world where it's okay for a guy to love another guy. That's probably true. But there will never be a world where it's okay to fall in love with your best friend's boyfriend.

how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?

Anyone can be crazy," she answered. "That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?

Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

I feel like I'm always trying to keep control of my life. Sometimes I'd like to be able to just let go and fall.

I am," I said. "I'm the problem.

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it. God

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

I'm still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one's got it all together. I don't think you ever do get it totally together.

They originally turned into superheroes when they were running from something they didn't like about themselves... All those superheroes were doing was fighting themselves.

But think about it: Right from the start the odds are against you. It's kind of amazing that any of us ever get here at all.

Good old Cat Poop tapped his pencil against the pad. "You're telling me that you hurt yourself because you want to be a ballerina," he said. "Is that right?