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Quotes About Struggle

I can no longer find any rationale for living. My life is as small as a firefly's. I am always uncomfortable; often I suffer.
~ Alice Notley
Now I feel I was inserted into life exactly not to do that. For I have been robbed of everything that made me social
~ Alice Notley
You were sick, so sick, with your wound of thwarted longing
~ Alice Notley
It's now strange to live in this body. I don't feel at one with it at all.
~ Alice Notley
though suffering rises up and shames me.
~ Alice Notley
I'll never know how to live, will you? That was blood in my eyes, not flames.
~ Alice Notley
I couldn't stop thinking, my thoughts kept attacking my head; I was my angry thoughts, but I also watched them.
~ Alice Notley
But there's a pain in lack of reasons.
~ Alice Notley
I want to know the thing that will justify my time, all the time I've spent doing shit jobs. Stupid work.
~ Alice Notley
Okay, I have to flee the storm again. Or I could stay.
~ Alice Notley
But I like the old themes, temptation, vengeance, hate.
~ Alice Notley
I hate the blues; I hate being worse off than someone else.
~ Alice Notley
I know I sound plaintive. I sound desperate.
~ Alice Notley
I can't love you. Why are you like this? Why did you hate me and make me hate you?
~ Alice Notley
Does she come to them sooner, for all their rage to find her?
~ Alice Notley
What can we do about our world? Why do you all make me struggle?
~ Alice Notley
I can't help but be both of you. I wanted to be able to take a side and will never again.
~ Alice Notley
If I drop both swords and rip off the blindfold, I still can't leave, for I can't leave this world except internally.
~ Alice Notley
I can't remember to be tempted.
~ Alice Notley
I am someone who couldn't find her place
~ Alice Notley
Time exists to be brutal in.
~ Alice Notley
Don't ever speak to me from ecstasy, my life is broken.
~ Alice Notley
Billions hide me before I can arise on my golden wings or something
~ Alice Notley
I'm hungry, I'm sick, I'm wounded.
~ Alice Notley