Quotes About Struggle

Unlike the land, where courage and the simple will to endure can often see a man through, the struggle against the sea is an act of physical combat, and there is no escape. It is a battle against a tireless enemy in which man never actually wins; the most that he can hope for is not to be defeated. It gave Shackleton

Their tongues were swollen with thirst

No choice remained but to hoist sail and try to claw their way offshore into the teeth of this fiendish gale.

He had proved himself on land. He had demonstrated there beyond all doubt his ability to pit his matchless tenacity against the elements—and win. But the sea is a different sort of enemy. Unlike the land, where courage and the simple will to endure can often see a man through, the struggle against the sea is an act of physical combat, and there is no escape. It is a battle against a tireless enemy in which man never actually wins; the most that he can hope for is not to be defeated.

Another night, this time without a drop of water, and possibly another gale—they simply did not have it in them.

Unlike the land, where courage and the simple will to endure can often see a man through, the struggle against the sea is an act of physical combat, and there is no escape. It is a battle against a tireless enemy in which man never actually wins; the most that he can hope for is not to be defeated.

Of all their enemies -- the cold, the ice, the sea -- he feared none more than demoralization.

And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with a thousand petty problems, to one of the barest simplicity in which only one real task remained—the achievement of the goal.

And all the defenses they had so carefully constructed to prevent hope from entering their minds collapsed.

Fresh from brawling courtsAnd dusty purlieus of the law.

Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are seal'd:I strove against the stream and all in vain:Let the great river take me to the main:No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield;Ask me no more.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

A still small voice spake unto me,"Thou art so full of misery,Were it not better not to be?"

Ah, whyShould life all labor be?

the major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur

It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur :—like unto an arrow in the hand of a child.

Go by, go by, with all your din, Your dust, your greed, your guile, Your pomp, your gold; you cannot win From her one smile.... Outlawed? Then hills and glens and streams Are outlawed, too. Proud world, from our immortal dreams, We banish you.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Lima lo obligaba a uno a andarse inventando trucos y aventuras para ocultar tanto miedo.

He was a man in whom the dreams of God that haunt the soul in youth, though overlaid by the scum that gathers in the fight for money, had not, as with the majority, utterly died the death. - Secret Worship

savage and formidable Potencies lurking behind the souls of men, not evil perhaps in themselves, yet instinctively hostile to humanity as it exists.

For he felt about the whole affair the touch somewhere of a great Outer Horror - and his scattered powers had not as yet had time to collect themselves into a definite attitude of fighting self-control. ("The Wendigo")

It's the willows themselves humming, because here the willows have been made symbols of the forces that are against us.

This feeble attempt at self-deception only makes the truth harder when you're forced to meet it