Quotes About Struggle

For the crown of our life as it closesIs darkness, the fruit there of dust.

We are not sure of sorrow,And joy was never sure.

I am tired of tears and laughter,And men that laugh and weep;Of what may come hereafterFor men that sow and reap:I am weary of days and hours,Blown buds of barren flowers,Desires and dreams and powersAnd everything but sleep.

What ailed us, O gods, to desert youFor creeds that refuse and restrain?Come down and redeem us from virtue,Our Lady of Pain.

Poor splendid wings so frayed and soiled and torn!

O all fair lovers about the world, There is none of you, none, that shall comfort me. My thoughts are as dead things, wrecked and whirled Round and round in a gulf of the sea; And still, through the sound and the straining stream, Through the coil and chafe, they gleam in a dream, The bright fine lips so cruelly curled, And strange swift eyes where the soul sits free.

All the world is bitter as a tear

I am that which unloves me and loves; I am stricken, and I am the blow.

She loved the games men played with death, Where death must win

I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.

Fierce midnights and famishing morrows, And the loves that complete and control All the joys of the flesh, all the sorrows That wear out the soul.

I dare not always touch her, lest the kiss leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, brief bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.

The torturing and testing of parents, is followed by shortage (of sustenance), and being driven towards belittlement and humiliation.

But Israel's might is useless in a struggle that is not about winning territory but securing democratic rights for all. This is why opposition to the grim realities must be coupled with a battle of ideas in which walls and checkpoints provide no defense. Furthermore, it is why the struggle must take a moral form that offers Israel no excuses for its oppressive measures.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

Anyone who loves us Ahlul Bayt must be ready to face a life of austerity.

Lack of friends means, stranger in one's own country.

If the right usurped from us is given back to us we shall take it, otherwise we shall go on claiming it.

If poverty was a man, I would have slain him.

So, for people of colour to even make it to the point where they could be considered for college admission, or employment in managerial or professional occupations, they had to overcome obstacles that white admissions tutors and employers simply did not have to face and remained unaware of.

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.

When the state is not kind, then the people are fodder.

Stop thieving my tragedy