Quotes About Struggle

Writing is like masturbating when you have just masturbated. It's not fun. But it has to be done, or else people would not have anything to read while they sit on the toilet.

Every person has his or her own Annapurna." I go on to explain that there were many Annapurnas in my life—challenges I wasn't sure I could meet—but that "the real Annapurna was my last one." For each of you out there, your Annapurna might be a tough project at work, a bad illness, or the breakup of a marriage, but the trick is to find a way of converting adversity into something positive, a challenge to look forward to.

The famous last line of Herzog's book is "There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Gloria Anzaldúa, who revolutionised the Chicana writing of her generation, called the border 'una herida abierta – an open wound – where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds. And before a scab forms, it haemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two countries merging to form a third country – a border culture.

Yet, by not seeking help. . . .

Why would anyone entertain Satan's questions about God's goodness when everything is good? But a few bumps in the road, and our knowledge of God seems fragile, and that's what Satan is counting on.

Sin is guerrilla warfare that is deadly. Just when you think you are in control, it seeks to devour you.

If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to stand there and say, 'I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.

If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to create a space for yourself, to stand there and say, "I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.

Dans l'opprimé d'hier, l'oppresseur de demain.

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact - we can escape neither.

exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

At heart they hate their horrid fates, and so wreak their poor spite on me who stand for everything they have not, and for all they most crave and never can attain. Let us pity them, my chieftain, for even though we die at their hands we can afford them pity, since we are greater than they and they know it

I should at least die as I had lived—fighting.

Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.

Thuvia of Ptarth was having difficulty in determining the exact status of the Prince of Helium in her heart. She

I do not mean that the adult Martians are unnecessarily or intentionally cruel to the young, but theirs is a hard and pitiless struggle for existence upon a dying planet, the natural resources of which have dwindled to a point where the support of each additional life means an added tax upon the community into which it is thrown.

she faced the fearful reality of choosing between the final alternatives–Nikolas Rokoff on one hand and self-destruction upon the other.

native army, which it used

I should prefer being thrown to the demnition ducks and drakes, he said moodily.

wie ein dürrer, kahler Fels steht mein zerstörtes Leben in der Brandung des Weltalls.

It was as though the dark part of my past had become a physical being, a black beast pounding on the gates of my memory.

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

I take courage," Aeneas said. "Here too there are tears for things, and hearts are touched by the fate of all that is mortal.