Quotes About Struggle

The seventh and eighth grade were for me, and for every single good and interesting person I have ever known, what the writers of the Bible meant when they used the words hell and the pit . . . It was all over for any small feeling that one was essentially all right. One wasn't.

He is brilliant and wonderful and charismatic and loving when he's not using, but like every addict I have ever heard of, he becomes a stranger when he is, distant and foolish and self-destructive and broken and dangerous.

I don't think too many prisoners would live under the boots of their misery if they knew that the amount of work is the same to make ourselves miserable or make ourselves strong. And when we do, we can free ourselves without leaving our cells.

Beyond the edge of town, past tar-covered poor houses and a low hill bare except for fallen electric poles, was the institution and it sent its delicate and isolated buildings trembling over the gravel and cinder floor of the valley.

Meanwhile, people relinquish their rights readily and eagerly in a quest for peace with religious fanatics that will never be realized.

you believe a little shithead like this is able to stay on the run for so long?" McLarney declares, returning from yet another unsuccessful turn-up of a Milligan hideout. "You shoot a guy, hey," the sergeant adds with a shrug. "You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it's time to admit you have a problem.

It's hard to get someone to love you, and for you to love them back. Do most people even get close to real love? And the thing about real love is that it is often the most painful thing of all. On the other hand, it's the easiest thing of all to hate others, or be hated by them. Hate comes so naturally! It's second nature.

The Revolution eats its own. That's the law. And the greatest heroes die with it. They always know their fate when they begin. That's their true heroism.

his attempts at baking being closer to brickmaking than bread.

Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.

To be famous and broke is hard.

Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

Money is a headache for both rich and poor people. They're simply different types of headaches.

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

Perhaps it's all an animal existence,' he said. He had to raise his voice above the rattle of the bus. Below them passed the dark waters of the river.

abuse of drugs was not "a mysterious and inexplicable natural catastrophe, but a form

was grappling with someone who had been a junior ensign on a PT boat in the same seas—and the blustery Navy commander was appalled to find himself in such an ignominious position.

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.

Our agony was the government's triumph.

If they thought we were a bunch of crazies, why did they drive us to the limit?

I knew I would never be able to explain myself in the language of faith, a tongue I was still fumbling with.

Two struggling musicians, always broke, forever hopeful.

It won't always be wonderful. It depends on your state of grace.