Quotes About Struggle

hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

I worry that people will think that I have done what I've done just because I have access and resources. I hope people will know that I'm just as scared and lonely as anyone else!

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.

Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

The heart bowed down by weight of woe to weakest hope will cling.

Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.