Quotes About Struggle

Saintliness is also a temptation.

Il y a l'amour... Et puis il y a la vie, son ennemie.

What will my happiness be like? What kind of happy woman will Antigone grow into? What base things will she have to do, day after day, in order to snatch her own little scrap of happiness? Tell me – who will she have to lie to? Smile at? Sell herself to? Who will she have to avert her eyes from, and leave to die?

Every suicide is a solution to a problem.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

There is no road of flowers leading to glory

Better to suffer than to die: that is mankind's motto.

No path of flowers leads to glory.

No está cubierto de flores el camino a la gloria

În lenta curgere a istoriei, cu sinozit??ile, cu ezit?rile, cu mla?tinile sale, cu timpii s?i mor?i, apar dintr-o dat?, ?i adesea în durere ?i sânge, avalan?e de violen?e ?i de relativ? simplicitate.

Universul era o juxtapunere sau o întrep?trundere de mecanisme opace ?i de comportamente care luptau adeseori între ele ?i care se aranjau cum puteau. Ele se n??teau din hazard ?i necesitate, din educa?ie, din clasele sociale, din realit??ile economice, din ereditate ?i din mediu. Putea surveni orice, dar psihanaliza ?i marxismul sfâr?eau mereu prin a interpreta totul. Nu se mai încerca s? se în?eleag?, se explica.

Po?i oare s? te sustragi timpului t?u? Po?i s? fii superior sau inferior, po?i s? lup?i împotriva lui cum încetasem noi s? o facem: pân? la urm? el te prinde îns?, ?i te înseamn? cu pecetea lui.

The explanation is that it is rivals rather than enemies who hamper our beginnings, and it is against them we fight until the great conflicts arise which decide ways of life, modes of thought, and the meaning of history.

fiecare ?tie în prezent c? nu suntem aproape nimic altceva decât rodul circumstan?elor în care ne zbatem ?i care ne alc?tuiesc între hazard ?i necesitate.