Quotes About Struggle

(I didn't tell him that thediagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.)

Six wives the King's had now.' Barak's words dragged me from my reverie. 'We can't even get one between us.

He's lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.

I hate being a teenager.""Why?""Hormones." With a sad half smile, he left.

The last time I checked, I didn't have any special talent, thought Kara.Can I paint a demon to death?Drown it in some gouache?

But...he's a demon. Isn't that sort of the main category of Things to Smite?

It is meant to be survival of the fittest, not survival of the most floral.

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One

All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.

The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running.

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that's much quieter.

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.