Quotes About Struggle

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

Is this what real homelessness is like? Not just a particular set of roof and walls gone, but a sense of the death of companionship?

Sometimes, I think I'm the child of the Devil. Honestly, I do believe that. I've invited the Devil in, and now I can't get him out. I've tried burning him out and cutting him out and he don't take no notice. Why should he? He doesn't want to be homeless. He's got me. Little, skinny, violent me.

Rough sleepers have a life expectancy of forty-two years. They are thirty-five times more likely to commit suicide than the rest of the population. In

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many wiles.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

This long disease, my life.

Then most our trouble still when most admired, And still the more we give, the more required; Whose fame with pains we guard, but lose with ease, Sure some to vex, but never all to please.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed." / What then? Is the reward of virtue bread?

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

But when the wheel next turns, it could turn in the devil's own direction. That's why we put our shoulder to it.

When Darkness Comes

He might be immortal, but not even an eternity would be enough time to work through his mommy issues. It

Don't you have somewhere you need to be?" she gritted. "The kitchen? The sewers? The fires of hell?

Families... Could not live with them, could not turn them into toads.

Thomas Mann that "a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Artemisia ona kap?y? açm?yor. Arabas?na binme teklifini de geri çeviriyor. Eve kapanaca??n?, Türkler gibi eve kapal? ya?ad???n? hayk?r?yor içerden.

Maybe I just don't want another rejection," he shrugs. "I've had enough of that in my so-called acting career." Oh, so this is what it's all about. "But you're not auditioning for a role," I try to persuade him. "Aren't I?" he raises his eyebrows.

One thing I've learned through this bloody awful time is that grief isn't linear. You can be doing all right, then it will suddenly come out of nowhere. It's the silly little things that remind you .