Quotes About Struggle

The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose." —Frederick Douglass

War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left.

Both sides think they are about to lose. They are both correct." —Old military proverb

After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.

But when you're extra scared or fatigued or discomfortable, some other bad thing is bound to happen. The past two days confirm this theory: a flat tire, a stickup, and a bad fall. The Morton Salt girl had it right. When it rains, it damn well pours.

It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path… is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Quand on a épuisé tous les moyens pacifiques face à une agression extérieure, il est nécessaire de faire usage du glaive.

I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.

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.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

You can't let pain go beyond a certain level or you start doing crazy things : you swallow some Destop Turbo and your internal organs, composed of the same substances that usually block sinks, break down amidst horrible pain: or else you throw yourself under a metro and find yourself two legs short with your balls crushed to bits, but still alive.

I didn't even want to fuck her, or maybe I kind of wanted to fuck her but I also kind of wanted to die, I couldn't really tell.

All I knew was that once again I found myself alone, with even less desire to live and nothing to look forward to but aggravations.

Que pouvions-nous faire, donc? Vivre? C'est exactement dans ce genre de situation qu'écrasés par le sentiment de leur propre insignifiance les gens se décident à faire des enfants; ainsi se reproduit l'espèce, de moins en moins il est vrai.

The outside world was harsh, merciless towards the weak, and hardly ever kept its promises, and love remained the only thing in which one could still, perhaps, have faith.

Está lección autobiográfica no lo es en realidad: sea como sea, no tengo otra salida. Sino escribo lo que he visto sufriría igual; y quizás un poco más. Un poco solamente, insisto en esto. La escritura no alivia apenas. Describe, delimita. Introduce una sombra de coherencia,una idea de realismo. Uno sigue chapoteando en una niebla sangrienta, pero hay algunos puntos de referencia. El caos se queda a unos pocos metros. Pobre éxito, en realidad.

El mundo exterior era duro, implacable con los débiles, no cumplía nunca sus promesas, y el amor seguía siendo lo único en lo que todavía se podía, quizá, tener fe.

La liberté, à titre personnel, j'étais plutôt contre; il est amusant de constater que ce sont toujours les adversaires de la liberté qui se trouvent, à un moment ou à un autre, en avoir le plus besoin.

Men in general don't know how to live: they have no true familiarity with life, and never feel entirely at ease in it, so they pursue different projects, more or less ambitious and more or less grandiose – generally speaking, of course, they fail and reach the conclusion that they would have been better off just living, but as a rule by that point it's too late.