Quotes About Struggle

You know how it is when someone wants to complain; all the good counsel in the world is nothing to one drop of their precious misery, and everything you suggest is somehow impossible.

I used to have dreams in which I was overhearing conversations I had to program. Once, I had to program two people making love. In my dream they sweated and tumbled while I sat with a cramped hand writing code. The couple went from gentle caresses to ever-widening passions, and I despaired as I tried desperately to find a way to express the act of love in the C computer language.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain. If God were God, if He were omnipotent, if He had cared, would this have happened? Is this that I face now the ratification of my calling, the reward of obedience?

God does work through hurt. God works in the midst of all things.

As it is, the profusion of commodities is a genuine and powerful compensation for oppression.

I had thought that I knew her affliction and not merely the fact of it. It was no stranger to me. I understood it emotionally, empathetically. But I had only ever touched down at its airport. She was a citizen of its vast interior.

There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.

Now have ado with a man!

I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he'll which way to fall.

But there comes a time when the old grow very tired, and the load of leadership unjustly heavy to bear. And perhaps—perhaps!—Heribert would not be quite so sad as even he now supposed, if the load should be lifted from him.

Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay.

Ellis Peters

Kings and abbots are also men, and can fall to temptation.

I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or hell which way to fall.

There was, after all, a great deal of human happiness in the world, even a world so torn and mangled with conflict, cruelty and greed. So it had always been, and always would be. And so be it, provided the indomitable spark of joy never went out.

I am a stranger in a world I never made

The world of today is at the crossroads--[t]he whole scheme of aimless capitalism and the last dregs of traditionalist nationalism are being seen more clearly in their death struggle.

Para mí solo hay un infortunio: ¡tener que vivir y no poder crear!

For an active person it is the work of a lifetime to acquire it, but once you have grasped the sweetness of indolence you will hold on to it for ever, even if it is a constant struggle.

By the time they reached the boat her rudder had already been torn off.

wave-tossed cockleshells, and, finally, we've

When she had been abandoned twenty-five days before, it had seemed that she would sink at any moment.

Yet now that the journey was done, sanctuary was ironically denied them.