Quotes About Struggle

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.

A storm broke loose in my mind.

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.