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Quotes About Struggle

Beautiful. All this suffering at the moment of destruction.
~ Naoko Takeuchi
You can't solve anyone else's life for them. But then, if you see someone struggling with a heavy load, isn't it forbidden to walk on without helping them?
~ Naomi Alderman
A year may be easy, but its days are hard indeed.
~ Naomi Alderman
It is hard now, very hard, but the difficulty is familiar.
~ Naomi Alderman
For the earth is filled with violence, and every living thing has lost its way.
~ Naomi Alderman
no true knowledge is ever reached without pain.
~ Naomi Alderman
Tunde tries to imagine what it'd be like to have one. A power you can't give away or trade. He feels himself yearning for it, repulsed by it. He reads online forums where men say that if all the men in the world had one everything would be back to the way it ought to be. They're angry and afraid. He understands that.
~ Naomi Alderman
Allie says: So what, then? What is any of my power worth if I can't use it here? The voice says: Remember what Tatiana says. We don't have to ask what they'd do if they were in control. We've seen it already. It's worse than this.
~ Naomi Alderman
At first we did not speak our hurt because it was not manly. Now we do not speak it because we are afraid and ashamed and alone without hope, each of us alone. It is hard to know when the first became the second.
~ Naomi Alderman
All things, when measured in spans of years, seem simple. But human lives do not occur in years but slowly, day by day. A year may be easy, but its days are hard indeed.
~ Naomi Alderman
What can I tell you? Welcome to the human race. You people like to pretend things are simple, even at your own cost.
~ Naomi Alderman
It is hard now, very hard, but the difficulty is familiar. Her body wants something, and she is denying it.
~ Naomi Alderman
How quickly people forget the taste of freedom, swapping it for this easy comfortable thing they call peace. Sleep is peaceful. Death is peaceful. Freedom is life and wakefulness.
~ Naomi Alderman
Still, it was hard to believe in a faint shadow on the lung. Who could see a shadow? What was a shadow? The congregation could not believe that Rav Krushka could succumb to a shadow.
~ Naomi Alderman
I think that's what most of us want, really, isn't it? A challenge that's just hard enough that we can accomplish it, but it'll take everything we've got. So that there's no room left in us for the doubt, the worry, the internal crises. We have to let it fill us up because that's the only way to get the job done.
~ Naomi Alderman
She can't afford to afford to look weak, not at a time like this.
~ Naomi Alderman
He realizes now that he could not stop her, whatever she wanted to do now. The thought is terrifying. The thought is electrifying.
~ Naomi Alderman
It is hard now, very hard, but the difficulty is familiar. Her body wants something, and she is denying
~ Naomi Alderman
People are allowed to be weak.
~ Naomi Alderman
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
~ Naomi Campbell
I wanted to confess that if someone took out a gun and killed me onstage he would be doing me a favor.
~ Naomi Judd
After three weeks on Zoloft and Lexapro, I felt like a new person. But not a person anyone would ever want to get to know.
~ Naomi Judd
The third prescription had even less effect in lifting my depression than the first two and had done nothing but increase my anger and feeling of hopelessness.
~ Naomi Judd
But one of the frustrating symptoms of my depression and anxiety is that I had no attention span at all. I would read one paragraph and then realize that I had no idea what I had just read, or I'd accidentally reread the same paragraph, over and over. I was desperate to find articles or research by someone who understood what I was going through.
~ Naomi Judd