Quotes About Struggle

All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need other people for support, but we draw our strength from within. In the end, despite faith and friends, we are alone.

We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.

We tear ourselves inside out for something the world may love, then base our worth on that.

It's pretty simple. When people got out of Africa and Asia and reached other parts of the world, all hell broke loose.

It would take me the better part of growing up to understand that intimacy, more than sex or even sexual orientation, was the universal battleground, and no easier for straight than gay.

I find myself combing the past these days, dreaming dreams without sleep, puzzling over my guys, the gay and the straight and the in-between. Somewhere in there is a horror of love, and to try to kill the beast in them, they take it out on us. Which is not to say I don't chastise myself for halving the world into us and them. I know that the good guys aren't all gay, or the bad all straight. That is what I am sifting for, to know what a man is finally, no matter the tribe or gender.

walking with on Robertson was an outing of the self-destructed, trying to make do with one day at a time.

When you are gay and alone and want to be a poet, suicide crosses your mind at twenty-two like an impresario's cape.

Yet that's how it felt for years and years -- that Andover ground me beneath the heel of its Bass Weejuns because it needed losers to make its golden Adonises shine even brighter. I wandered through so lost and sad, I can't believe nobody ever asked me what was wrong. Nothing, I would have said, by which I would have meant Everything .

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

So I told myself I would give it up, even prayed at night for it to be taken away, not knowing that 'it' was love.

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

You need only to have glimpsed it once to know there's a window out of all this black and sleepless night. Then you must use it to hope on. Key to the dream country where all your people are whole again, and the gunboats can't reach you, and the Empire of Hate is rubble. You and your secret dream of freedom are the tidal wave. Keep watch, every night if you have to. As for sleeping, you can sleep when you're dead.

When I bucked and shot myself, hearing him greedily drink and swallow, I knew I had tasted life at last—and wouldn't end up sobbing in a wheelchair after all.

It's real hard to come off as even slightly superior when you're living a Tom and Jerry episode.

They didn't know that I didn't know anything, and I was hoping to use that to my advantage. The only thing I had going for me was my ignorance. This was the story of my life.

You're only who you think you are until you aren't anymore. And it isn't up to you. It's up to time. Life is timing. The test of time. We all have to take it, and none of us pass. No matter how hard you study. Perfect attendance. All that homework. Extracurricular activities. You're still getting an F, just like everyone else. Finite. Failed. Fucked.

If disgust was a shotgun I would've blown my own head off.

It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar after so many losses]

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

Qui sert la bourgeoisie ne sert pas les hommes.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

It will not compete. It demands top priority in the alcoholic's life.

A.A. program of recovery is a spiritual way of life which allows alcoholics to live comfortably free from alcohol no matter what is or is not going on in their lives.