Quotes About Struggle

War makes monsters out of men.

Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.

The mistake of every young person is to think they're the only ones who see darkness and hardship in the world." ... "The mistake of every adult, though, is to think darkness and hardship aren't important to young people because we'll grow out of it. Who cares if we will? Life is happening to us now, just like it's happening to you.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

I feel like I'm way down this deep, deep hole and I'm looking up and all there is is this little dot of light and I have to shout at the top of my lungs for anyone to hear me and even when I do, I say the wrong thing or they don't really listen or they're just humouring me.

You must speak the truth and you must speak it now , Conor O'Malley. Say it. You must. Conor shook his head again, his mouth clamped shut tight, but he could feel a burning in his chest, like a fire someone had lit there, a miniature sun, blazing away and burning him from the inside. "It'll kill me if I do," he gasped. It will kill you if you do not, the monster said. You must say it.

Here is the boy, drowning.

He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.

And a part of you wished it would just end, said the monster, even if it meant losing her.

It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd." I look at him, baffled. "No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!

VIOLA Cuz she's here - She came - She came for me - And she calls my name - And I feel her strength coursing thru my Noise like a fire - And the Mayor staggers back like he's been punched in the face by a row of houses - "Ah, yes," he grunts, his hand to his head. "Your tower of strength has arrived." "Todd!" I hear her call again - And I take it and I use it - Cuz I can feel her there, riding to the end of the world to find me, to save me if I needed saving - Which I did -

It was so much easier to be loved than to have to do any of the desperate work of loving.

That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

And at first it's okay, you know, not perfect, but okay, and you get used to it. Then it gets a little worse, and you get used to that, too. Then one day, you wake up and you don't have the first freakin' clue how it got that bad.

And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do with it." VIOLA "Looks like I'm doing fine," I say.

Something I chose to forget because it didn't fit in with how shit everything was.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

For there are devils in the deep, but worst are the ones we make.

Because humans are complicated beasts," the monster said.

And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.