Quotes About Struggle

We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from that.

There are no survivors in my fights.

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

'Suddenly Susan' is my life.

The poor lifestyle I had been leading made my body susceptible to diseases. Had it not been cancer, some other malady would have struck me.

When people are pushing me against the cage, in the past I was more susceptible to allowing it to happen because I had that jiu-jitsu mentality that I'm not going to grind back.

I think I've grown up in a mixed environment, and maybe a lot of the time I haven't really belonged anywhere in the way I've dreamt of belonging to, you know, living on the street and playing to all the kids on the street, growing up together. I suppose 'Raw Like Sushi' was a place where all of those things could come together.

People who live in North Korea, they die for food, but living in the free world, the cat even eats expensive sushi.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

I had good grades in school, but I was always in trouble. I used to get suspended and I'm not very good at being told what to do.

I was suspended for two years and I got really fat. That was a polite way of putting it.

I was suspended and discarded. I was told to go to hell by administrators. I was placed in classes far beneath my intelligence. I even had a teacher tell me my life was ruined.

All nations struggle in the aftermath of civil war. More than 100 years after the English Civil War, for instance, any prelate who was 'enthusiastic' about religion attracted censure and suspicion.

Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.

My mother always wanted me to be in the best environment that I could be in. She wanted me to go to the best schools. Every now and again she'd save up enough for us to get a nice apartment in downtown Chicago, but we were never able to sustain it.

Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

No one can sustain rage for long. I am still angry and always will be. My dear son was stolen from me and his family to never return. He was killed for profit and lies. How can I not be angry? Sometimes though, the rage comes back.