Quotes About Struggle

Men can be divided into those who make their life complicated to gain their soul and those who waste their soul to make their life easier.

Peace does not flourish except among moribund nations. Under the sun of iron hegemonies.

Humanity longs to free itself from poverty, from toil, from war—from everything which few escape without degrading themselves.

Die Intellektuelle Geschichte Deutschlands lehrt uns, daß der Geist mit Vorliebe in den Seelen weht, die ihre Größe durch ein Leben der eintönigen Routine erkämpfen.

Es genügt, daß die Schönheit unseren Überdruß streift, damit unser Herz wie Seide zwischen den Händen des Lebens zerreißt.

Humanizing humanity again will not be an easy task after this long orgy of divinity.

Let us be careful not to call accepting what degrades us without any resistance "accepting life".

Sólo a través de la lucha armada se pueden crear las condiciones subjetivas de la revolución. Sólo a través de la guerra de guerrillas se pueden crear las condiciones para la construcción de un Ejército del Pueblo"[33]

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Comme une eau, le monde vous traverse et pour un temps vous prête ses couleurs. Puis se retire, et vous replace devant ce vide qu'on porte en soi, devant cette espèces d'insuffisance centrale de l'âme qu'il faut bien apprendre à côtoyer, à combattre, et qui, paradoxalement, est peut-être notre moteur le plus sûr.

Middle-class women who entertain the hope or fancy of being something in the world, lose Nature's happiness and miss Society's. They are the most unfortunate creatures I have known.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.

In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

History choked me History took hold of my throat

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.

Leah and Gideon were left staring at each other with hollow expressions. Armies marching. War on the way.

But in the end he didn't love her enough to fight for her.

What was more brutal than loss of hope?

She shrugged, knowing all too well how easy it was to long for a different life, how hard it was to find one's way there.

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.