Quotes About Struggle

Each death was like a hook through my skin, pulling me always backward to that moment. Already I felt the strain of those deaths, those visions, tearing at the fabric of who and where and when I was.

Look in his eyes. He has died a thousand times these last moments...You defeated him utterly the moment you saw fear in his eyes. All else is redundancy.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

We must take the long view—every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition.

Americans have dissipated their racial energy in an orgy of stone-breaking. In their few years they have broken more stones than did centuries of Egyptians, and they have done their work hysterically, desperately, almost as if they knew that the stones would some day break them.

Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.

All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.

Men have always fought their misery with dreams. Although dreams were once powerful, they have been made puerile by the movies, radio and newspapers. Among many betrayals, this is the worst.

Bi?u zvezda jednog dana," izjavila je kao da ga izaziva da joj protivre?i. "Siguran sam..." "To je moj život. To je jedina stvar na svetu koju želim." "Dobro je znati šta želiš. Ja sam bio knjigovo?a u hotelu, ali..." "Ako ne bude tako, izvrši?u samoubistvo.

He felt like an empty bottle that is being slowly filled with warm, dirty water.

Her invitation wasn't to pleasure, but to struggle, hard and sharp, closer to murder than love. If you threw yourself on her, it would be like throwing yourself from the parapet of a skyscraper. You would do it with a scream. You couldn't expect to rise again. Your teeth would be driven into your skull like nails into a pine board and your back would be broken. You wouldn't even have time to sweat or close your eyes.

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

You need discipline most, when it's hardest to muster.

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

All his life long, he had been learning how to be wretched, as one learns a foreign tongue; and now, with the lesson thoroughly at heart, he could with difficulty comprehend his little airy happiness.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

Custer wrote, "I often think I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people adhered to the free open plains rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation, there to be the recipient of the blessed benefits of civilization, with its vices thrown in without stint or measure.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.