Quotes About Struggle

often think that if men realised how much time you spend as a woman pleading with men – pleading with them to stop doing what they're doing, or pleading with them to let you do whatever needs to be done – they'd understand a lot more about what our lives are like.

It reads 'BLYTH MINERS WIVES. Thatcher snatched our milk, now she wants our daily bread.

don't we all have moments of madness?

La peur est tellement envahissante, tellement omniprésente, qu'elle en devient presque normale. Il n'en demeure pas moins que vivre sous l'emprise de la peur, même quand elle ne vous quitte jamais, est une expérience éprouvante [...].

There are no friends, there is no safety net, all the money is used up. The days creep by like beetles, slow and beyond morality. There is no escape. Shame and nightmares. The horror of other people, having to function among them when you are broken and unfixable. There is no escape.

So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.

Because what is fate, but that moment when you're playing the computer on the hardest difficulty setting, you've run out of life force and you make that one mistake. It's those excruciating moments that pass by like an eternity before that final hit comes. You know you've fucked up, and there's no way of going back. You can press pause as much as you like, but it won't stop what's going to happen.

I am at war - at war with the ants

a person. Just like her. Just like everyone. Lost and alone

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

Mummy was a swine: a scum-cunted, likkered-up, brain-sick swine. She was lazy and slothful and dirty and belligerent and altogether evil. Ma was a soak - a drunk - a piss-eyed hell-bag with a taste for the homebrew.

Everyone loves a good boxing story, especially God

Es vienk?rši atkl?ju, ka š? pasaule ir p?rlieku smaga, lai taj? b?tu labs," saka Bannijs, tad aizver acis un, izp?tis elpu, sastingst.

If there was a thorn for every time that ah have died today,' ah thought, 'a thorn for every time that they have killed me, the world would be one big briar patch.

I just found this world a hard place to be good in,' says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.

You've got to understand your limitations. It's your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

There Will Always Be Suffering It Flows Through Life Like Water

Any writer tackling religious oppression has to accept that liberalism tempered the misogyny of mainstream Christianity and Judaism in the rich world after centuries of struggle, but left the poor world largely untouched. Christianity and Judaism are not 'better' than Islam and Hinduism. Free-thinkers have just made a better job of containing their prejudices and cruelties.

It was sort of my own personal apocalypse.

His body had been doing that for almost two thousand years. Since his time as a slave on the Obsidia.