Quotes About Struggle

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

y vuelta y vuelta a tanta terca tuerca para entregarse entero o de tres cuartos harto ya de mitades y de cuartos al entrevero exhausto de los lechos deshechos o darse noche y día sin descanso contra todos los nervios del misterio del más allá de acá

Ah, si yo hubiera sabido que la muerte es un país donde no se puede vivir!

De nada sirve que nos tapemos las orejas. Los comentarios, las risitas irónicas, los cascotes que caen de no se sabe dónde, nos atormentan en tal forma los minutos del día y del insomnio, que nos dan ganas de suicidarnos nuevamente.

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

Every marriage was imperfect and the destroying agents, the imperfections, were there, unseen, from the start.

War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.

Nos vies sont les mêmes. Nos vies se débattent, crient dans la nuit, hurlent et tremblent de peur. Infiniment nous cherchons un abri. Un lieu où le vent siffle moins fort. Un endroit où aller. Et cet abri est un visage, et ce visage nous suffit.

Les vagues sont hautes ce soir. Elles me frappent, me rouent de coups, s'abattent sur moi avec toute la brutalité nécessaire. À cet instant c'est exactement ce que j'attends d'elles. Qu'elles m'assomment. Me foutent la tête sous l'eau.

was no mean achievement to have given a Bill of Rights to a country that, until then, had never known any kind of freedom.

In a world where liberty is in very short supply, there are worse heroes than a man who never stopped worshiping freedom.

They had entered the great upheaval because all doors were closed to them and had come out of it with new fortunes and freshly minted titles. He had lost almost everything but not given up liberty.

Woman is in the image of God equally with man. The sexes are of equal worth. Their virtues are equal, their struggles are equal … Would a man be able to compete with a woman who lives her life to the full? Gregory of Nyssa Let us make Man in our Image and Likeness, 2nd

Il successo del nostro percorso dipende dalla nostra famiglia, dalla nostra compagna o dal nostro compagno, dagli amici che ci incoraggiano e ci circondano quando non abbiamo un soldo e ci ritroviamo col morale a terra. Sono loro a darci il coraggio di continuare la strada quando siamo divorati dal dubbio. Sul nostro impervio cammino, dipenderanno sempre dagli altri, da coloro che ci accolgono cm da coloro che ci raccolgono...

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

Let's not kid ourselves, pain always exists, and there's no shilly-shallying that it is probably the essential part of life.…

The individual can do nothing and yet he can do everything.… I am on the side of struggle.

La patience est une guerre qui se livre souvent avant la vraie bataille.

Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l'âme vois-tu, la peinture n'est que le reflet de ce chagrin, antichambre de la grande joie à venir." Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l'âme vois-tu, la peinture n'est que le reflet de ce chagrin, antichambre de la grande joie à venir. On ne se tue pas pour une femme (Plon)

La poésie est l'arme du pauvre.

Les guerres sont d'immenses machines à fabriquer des âmes errantes.

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.