Quotes About Struggle

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

It was quite tough, not many opportunities. I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future."

Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.

We're trapped in a world that's troubled with pain. As long as a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

For life to be meaningful, you must have a challenge.

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.

If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.