Quotes About Struggle

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public.

It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

Hope can make people do terrible things.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?

Hope is a very thin diet.

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

endless hope, endless disappointment.

False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

I hope I will be religious again but as for regaining my character I despare.