Quotes About Struggle

So you think that zero was there waiting for us when humans came into being, like the flowers and the stars? You should have more respect for human progress. We made the zero, through great pain and struggle.

unable to rid herself of her memories. Poor thing.

Within my roasting brain cells, the scraps of thought refused to cohere.

Nevertheless, to any employee, work is to some degree a place where strangers pull at you from left, right, above, and below, pinching, rubbing, and generally making a mess of you from morning to night.

Locked in my invisible cage, I am living proof of human rights violations, and I'm not even human

Her arms and legs were incapable of working in unison toward a single goal, they couldn't all follow the same directions at once. Sasha pressed Sonia's arms and legs together and called her name a few times, as though the name could bring harmony to her limbs.

Nevertheless, to any employee, work is to some degree a place where strangers pull at you from right, left, above and below, pinching, rubbing, and generally making a mess of you from morning to night.

To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.

We all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy.

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect.

I'm going to—uhhh!

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you.

Ordénales, te ruego, que callen. ¿Por qué siguen gritando? ¿A quién aplauden? ¿A quién aclaman? ¿A sus verdugos? ¿A sus muertos? ¿O querrán convencerse de que tienen manos y pueden hacerlas sonar, de que tienen voz y pueden gritar y oír así la voz que tienen?

I recall my Romani friend who drives from village to village to offer his services to potential clients and who claims, when asked about his origin, to be Irish or Italian. 'I make a living by denying who I am,' he says.

And yet we were very much alike; we'd lost our souls, and we were ready to destroy others.

Ce n'était pas une vie; on existait, et c'est tout.

La fortune, comme l,infortune, est une épreuve, et notre vocation est de la surmonter. (p.315)