Quotes About Struggle

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

Wouldn't that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say 'I never want to smoke again', then spend the rest of your life saying 'I'd love a cigarette.' That's what smokers who use the Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have.

The moment you stop smoking, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you've stopped smoking. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it you start to say, 'If only I could light up now, it would solve my problem.' You then start to question your decision to quit smoking.

Smokers do not smoke because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.

The moment you stop smoking, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you've stopped smoking.

Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime's chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery.

We think of stopping smoking as something that is very difficult to do. What do we need when we have something difficult to do? We need our little friend. So stopping smoking appears to be a double blow. Not only do we have a difficult task to perform, which is hard enough, but the crutch on which we normally rely on such occasions is no longer available.

It's like driving a car with your foot on the brake.

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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

I sing of arms and of a man…

Since the late 1980s and early 1990s hits, she and Harry had stumbled with unmemorable shows such as Women of the House and Hearts Afire.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

Memories of a time she wanted to forget clawed to be heard.

deep inside she wondered--feared--what it would take to break her.

She'd retreated inside again, the nightmares drowning her.

You make me feel. And sometimes, I don't want to.

There's a pain deeper than death...

Why did she feel like she was still broken?

That's the problem with dating somebody you're not truly in love with. Every few weeks the pressure builds and you turn into a monster. You're not sure who you hate more for the lie you are living, him or yourself.

It would be some joke to win through all these perils, only to drop dead of exhaustion within sight of Haven.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...