Quotes About Struggle

How can you ask a world that has come to regard cancer as curable, how can you ask such a world to put away that cure, to go back to the dark days? There was no going back.

But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task.

keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how I think it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.

You're always there, taking it all in. So you know as well as I do. The way she keeps getting at me. There's no reason a person has to take all that. She pushes it too far, then thinks it can all be fixed with a nice picture. Send the AF over with it. Well she has to understand. Things aren't always that easily fixed.

So identical were their pitiful whimpers, the way their screams gave way to desperate entreaties then returned to screams, that the notion came to me: this was what each of us would go through on our way to death, that these terrible noises were as universal as the crying of newborn babies.

You don't see how it is for some parents. Not only must they lose their children, they must lose them to things they don't understand.

But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.

Nuestra desgracia fue haber sido hombres normales en una época que no lo era.

It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has new standards by which to judge oneself.

And I could see the weariness in the boy AF's walk, and wondered what it might be like to have found a home and yet to know that your child didn't want you. Until I saw this pair it hadn't occurred to me that an AF could be with a child who despised him and wanted him gone, and that they could nevertheless carry on together

Wszyscy mamy gorsze dni. Ale w porównaniu z tym co mieliÅ›my przedtem, czujemy, jakbyÅ›my dopiero teraz... ?yli peÅ'niÄ… ?ycia.

I'm not saying it's always easy. We all have our bad days. But compared to what we had before, we feel like…we're really living for the first time.

Come possono guarire le vecchie ferite nell'abbondanza dei vermi che ancora le infettano? Come può durare per sempre una pace costruita sul massacro?

I'm surprised someone would desire so much a path that would leave her in loneliness. Until recently, I didn't think that humans could choose loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.

Me deleitaría si pudiese, honorable Axl, porque será una venganza justa. Pero me debilitan los años pasados entre vosotros, y por mucho que lo intente, una parte de mí da la espalda a las llamas del odio

Es descabellado, señor. ¿Cómo pueden cerrarse las viejas heridas mientras los gusanos siguen moviéndose con impunidad por ahí?

La vida ya nos trae muchos desengaños por sí sola. Si encima tiene esos sueños...

No such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in.

Sunt un laÈ™, nu pot îndura suferinÈ›a de a fi fericit.

so I never left due to you being out of my comfort zone and shortness of breath. Besides, I was already in a relationship with… pain and I hated him, but I loved him because pain had been faithful for years.

Days will get dark in this life. There will be good days and hard times. But be STILL and know that God is God.

Pretty soon he would be stronger than she was, and bigger, some real violence in his fist. The day was coming when the ordinary demons of adolescence would wrestle with his private devils, and it could be a hell.

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through

He lunged again. This time I stood my ground and he checked his leap at the last second....and toppled sideways. I didn't hide my laugh that time. His face twisted fast, grabbed my pajama leg and wrenched, and down I went. Bully