Quotes About Struggle

When it comes to being confused about what to do about life, that's been me and will always be me.

Somewhere along the way, things got confused, and the pop-star side of my career got in the way of my musician side.

Seeing my mother struggle with her weight confused me: I looked at her and thought she was beautiful, she was my mom. And this woman, who I looked up to everyday, couldn't see her own beauty?

It's okay to cry, it's okay to be confused, or to be down and angry.

I think 'Black Dog' came out at a time where a lot of people were feeling quite low and confused in quite a chaotic space.

A lot of parents are confused because they're reading a lot, and they can't make up their mind on what they're doing.

Are there days where I wish I was just at home with my kids? Yeah, most days. But then I look at our accomplishments, and I feel alive; I feel so proud of myself. So it's a very confusing thing to be a working parent.

The whole 'Roots' thing is a very confusing time in my life, because I don't think I knew how to deal with the whole fame thing very well - especially in Brazil. We went to Brazil, and the record was massive - like real, real big; like Beatles big. And I remember I tried to go to the mall with my wife, and we got mobbed.

I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other.

Me and my mum didn't see eye-to-eye for a lot of years, and I've never really felt connected with my dad, because he wasn't there.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

I don't come from a Hollywood family. I don't have Hollywood friends. I didn't have any connections.

The classic problem in a relationship is a person trying to control the other person. People just want to conquer somebody.

You can never conquer us, we will die first.

You will never, I think, fully conquer the play. Every night, you see this Everest before you. It's that two, three hours and the audience, and you'd better tell the truth.

If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.

School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

And what's great is, you know, while 'Mike and Molly' are working on their health, that's their flaw, the people that surround them are actually- that's the mess. Those two have it together the most.

Drama seems to kind of surround me.

If you're in the middle of a field, surrounded by armies, left right and centre, you can't just say: 'I've had enough now, sorry.'

I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.