Quotes About Struggle

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

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Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body

But while I remained ignorant of there never having been such a tiling as human self-effort or human independence, I had not realized that all my own efforts to live a victorious life were really Satan expressing himself as me.

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Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

An alcoholic promising not to drink again is roughly like anyone promising never to fart again

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.

Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.