Quotes About Struggle

Le vent se lève! . . . il faut tenter de vivre! L'air immense ouvre et referme mon livre, La vague en poudre ose jaillir des rocs! Envolez-vous, pages tout éblouies! Rompez, vagues! Rompez d'eaux réjouies Ce toit tranquille où picoraient des focs!

My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.

A difficulty is a light ; an insurmountable difficulty is a sun .

The wind is rising... we must attempt to live.

all that we know, that is, all we have the power to do, has finally turned against what we are.

Not knowing how to rid ourselves of our history, we shall be relieved of it by those happy peoples who have none, or next to none. And those happy peoples will impose their happiness on us.

Deux dangers ne cessent de menacer le monde ; l'ordre et le désordre.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder.

Mon âme pour d'affreux naufrages appareille.

Tired of life, afraid of death, not unlike A lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean, My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck.

It must be the condition of our age. There are more explosions, but they are only the side effect of not accepting the nature of our wrongness, of believing it must be the world that is deformed instead— unsure whether to abandon or destroy it, some opt for both.

Dystopias are scary because you can see people struggling, but utopias are scarier because you can see that they stopped.

Try to free a slave with ignorance / Try and teach a whore about romance

One foot in the door, the other one in the gutter; The sweet smell that they adore, I think I'd rather smother

chemotherapy as a cancer cure is pathetic.

You're dealing with a deadly disease. There is no way you're going to be able to work and fight this battle at the same time.

Lord, my whole world is turning upside down. First the news about cancer. Then the doctors' treatment plans. And now I find out the treatments may make things worse,

Well, truth is often hard to hear, but truth is freeing. And regarding cancer, the truth is this: money—rather than what's best for the patient—rules. And that's the truth.

Life is difficult and prayer would be the best gift I could give them.

God didn't cause this cancer. I know He doesn't make bad things happen to teach us a lesson. But He certainly allowed it.

having trouble believing it's more difficult for the cancer industry to find a cure for cancer than it was for science to find a way to go to the moon. But why would the industry want to find a cure when it's so lucrative not to?

Having another Christian woman who was dealing with cancer, one I could talk to, had been a real help.

It's no life, Paula. It's a living nightmare.