Quotes About Struggle

The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.

L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir.

A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.

În general, oamenii nu È™tiu s? tr?iasc?, nu se pun de acord cu viaÈ›a, nu se simt bine cu adev?rat în aceast? via??, aÈ™a încât ticluiesc diferite proiecte, mai mult sau mai puÈ›in ambiÈ›ioase, mai mult sau mai puÈ›in m?reÈ›e, dup? caz, È™i, de obicei, dau greÈ™, ajungând la concluzia c? ar fi fost mai bine, pur È™i simplu, s? tr?iasc?, dar, tot de obicei, e prea târziu pentru aÈ™a ceva.

Nefericirea noastr? nu atinge apogeul decât atunci când am întrez?rit, îndeajuns de aproape, posibilitatea practic? a fericirii.

Annabelle ne renonçait pas; pour elle, le visage de Michel ressemblait au commentaire d'un autre monde. Vers la même époque elle lut la Sonate à Kreutzer, crut un instant le comprendre au travers de ce livre.

Nothing - not even death - seems worse than the prospect of living in a broken body.

The fighting had begun. You could make out groups of masked men roaming around with assault rifles and automatic weapons. Windows had been broken, here and there cars were on fire, but the images, shot in the pelting rain, were of such poor quality it was impossible to get a clear idea of who was doing what.

ludzie nie sprzymierzyli siÄ™ przeciw mnie, staÅ'o siÄ™ jedynie to, ?e nic siÄ™ nie staÅ'o, tylko moja od poczÄ…tku ograniczona przynale?no?? do Å›wiata stopniowo staÅ'a siÄ™ zerowa, a? w koÅ"cu nic ju? nie mogÅ'o powstrzyma? mojego dalszego staczania siÄ™ po równi pochyÅ'ej

Il n'y a pas beaucoup à gagner dans ce monde

Les hommes en géneral ne savent pas vivre, ils n'ont aucune vraie familiarité avec la vie, ils ne s'y sentent jamais tout à fait à leur aise, aussi poursuivent-ils différents projets, plus ou moins ambitieux plus ou moins grandioses c'est selon, en géneral bien entendu ils échouent et parviennent à la conclusion qu'ils aurait mieux fait, tout simplement, de vivre, mais en général il est trop tard.

Mon corps tendu jusqu'au délire / Attend comme un embrasement / Un devenir, un claquement ; / La nuit je m'exerce à mourir.

Dete je klopka koja se zatvorila, neprijatelj koga ?ete morati i nadalje da izdržavate i koji ?e vas nadživeti.

Lumea exterioar? era dur?, nemiloas? cu cei slabi, nu-È™i respecta aproape niciodat? promisiunile, iar dragostea r?mânea singurul lucru în care, poate, ne mai puteam înc? încrede.

Estoy en el sistema liberal como un lobo en un descampado

todo el mundo tiene forzosamente la impresión, en un momento u otro de su vida, de ser un fracasado. Ahí

avea alt? patologie, alt? poveste, aÈ™a c? m-am culcat aproape liniÈ™tit, fiindc? ne liniÈ™teÈ™te s? vedem, în mijlocul dramelor noastre, existenÈ›a altor drame, de care am fost scutiÈ›i.

the truth is that men were simply giving up the ghost.

Siento que se están rompiendo cosas dentro de mí, como paredes de cristal que estallan. Ando como un león enjaulado, rabioso; necesito actuar, pero no puedo hacer nada, porque todas las tentativas me parecen condenadas al fracaso de antemano. Fracaso, fracaso por todas partes. Sólo el suicidio resplandece en lo alto, inaccesible. A medianoche, siento una especie de sorda alteración; se produce algo interno y doloroso. Ya no entiendo nada

You must participate in competition, in struggle, in the life of the world. If you stop, you no longer exist. If you fall behind, you're dead.' Denying any notion of eternity, defining itself as a process of permanent renewal, advertising aims to vaporize human subjects, to transform them into obedient phantoms of becoming. And this skin-deep, superficial participation in the life of the world is supposed to take the place of the desire for being.

Bruno ochi È™i arunc? din toate puterile. Piatra se sf?râm? de zid, ratând de puÈ›in capul reptilei. — ?erpii au locul lor în natur?..., observ? Hipiotul-C?runt cu o anume severitate. — Natura, ah! M? È™terg la cur cu ea, b?trâne! M? cac în freza ei! Bruno era din nou furios. — Natur? de c?cat... M? fut în ea de natur?!... morm?i el furios timp de vreo câteva minute.

After my baccalaureate, I signed up for acting lessons; there followed some inglorious years, during which I grew nastier and nastier and, as a consequence, more and more caustic; thanks to this, success finally arrived—on a scale that surprised me.

Kiedy byÅ'am maÅ'a – opowiedziaÅ'a mi nieco pó?niej – nie mogÅ'am nawet kury zabi?. Ja, prawdÄ™ mówiÄ…c, te? nie; ale zabi? czÅ'owieka wydawaÅ'o mi siÄ™ du?o Å'atwiejsze.

the path that those girls made us take was entirely fallacious, I should add that it was raining', as Nerval probably wrote somewhere; I hadn't often thought about Nerval lately, but he had hanged himself at the age of forty-six, and Baudelaire too had died at that age; it isn't an easy one.