Quotes About Struggle

The boy I fell madly in love with – the boy made entirely of goodness and light – has been snuffed out by the bloodthirsty creature that glowers before me.

The darkness inside you allows for a more human experience. Giving you the very thing you lacked before: an insider's knowledge of the two faces of man—the constant struggle between darkness and light.

But while her world was soft and comfortable, offering everything I could ever want, it all came too easy. There was something to be said for patience and hard work.

people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.

Sie hatten mich einfach in die Höhle des Löwen laufen lassen, ohne Munition, ohne Verteidigungsmittel, ohne Ratschläge, wie ich das überleben sollte.

Life is not meant to be an open-book test,

This day's gone from really bad, to extremely bad and it's a long way from over.

true character is revealed by the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.

Me recordaba una procesión fúnebre; estos hombre, mujeres y niños que avanzan con una mirada de muerte y derrota en sus rostros. No podía imaginarme cómo el gueto, ya sobrepoblado, podía darle cabida a una persona más.

I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own heard, because being inside your own head is unbearable.

Well, I totally understand why people take huge drugs. Like heroin, or cocaine. I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own head, because being in your own head is unbearable. In fact, the reason I haven't taken drugs like that is because I know that it would be so good to be out of my own head that I wouldn't be able to stop

I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.

She's so strong and fierce that I am afraid of her sometimes. But she's going to need to be fierce, because the path she is on is going to be so painful.

Imagine if Uluru is absolute serenity and the ocean is homicidically mental, then my mother has been driving up and down the Pacific Highway for as long as I can remember.

The rebel leader and the priest.

I don't know how to blow stuff up. You were hurting, and I wanted to help, but I didn't know how, so I blew something up.

I'm a little tired of protecting people who help the ones trying to conquer them

Yet where Denal had prayed to Poseidon for death, Alaric was praying to the same god for life.

Finally, she looked up at him and met his gaze, and she gasped. He knew what must be visible on his face and therefore did not try to deny it. "You know," he rasped out. "You have always known, and you will always know that I am yours, and yet never can be. I am the most powerful high priest Poseidon has ever appointed, and yet I am too weak to hide the depths of my feelings for you.

People with menial jobs conjure up what Nietzsche calls a background world, forcing themselves to believe in an earthly or heavenly paradise. Their mental Eden is as seductive as their job is repugnant.

La vieillesse est un naufrage. Mais je n'ai pas envie de voir couler le bateau.

Les chiffres, dont j'avais toujours admiré la calme beauté pythagoricienne, devinrent mes ennemis. La calculette aussi me voulait du mal.

En vérité, on passe son temps à lutter contre la terreur du vivant. On s'invente des définitions pour y échapper : je m'appelle machin, je bosse chez chose, mon métier consiste à faire ci et ça.

A sentirla parlare, si giurerebbe che ha un conto in sospeso con le donne." "Altroché! È una di loro che mi ha dato la vita, quando non le avevo chiesto niente.