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Quotes About Struggle

La neuvième de Beethoven serait insoutenable aux oreilles si elle ne comportait des hésitations désespérés ...
~ Amelie Nothomb
Tantos escombros dentro de mí. ¿Cómo vivir con tanta muerte?
~ Amelie Nothomb
El tiempo nos aplasta
~ Amelie Nothomb
War reveals people's deeper nature.' 'I don't like that idea. It would suggest that we need to be put to the test. I think war reveals only one of our deeper natures. I would rather have shown you my deeper peace-time nature.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Tra il suicidio e la traspirazione non esitare. Versare il proprio sangue è ammirevole quanto è immondo versare il proprio sudore.
~ Amelie Nothomb
We are wrong to despise the body: it's so much less bad than the soul. Your soul claims to want things that your body refuses. When your soul is as honest as your body, you will be able to say my name.
~ Amelie Nothomb
La muerte contenida dentro de la vida me asustó.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Es más fácil morir que vivir, ésa es la razón por la que viviré por ti, amor mío.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Dès que j'ai atteint mon indépendance, un logement habité par moi a d'emblée ressemblé à un débarras squatté par des réfugiés politiques, prêts à déguerpir à la moindre descente de police.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Poi riparte il tran tran. A ciascuno il suo: caffè-sigaretta, tè-toast o cane-guinzaglio, il percorso di tutti noi è organizzato in modo che si abbia meno paura possibile. In realtà, passiamo il nostro tempo a lottare contro il terrore della vita. Per sfuggirgli, inventiamo definizioni: mi chiamo tizio, sgobbo per conto di caio, il mio lavoro consiste nel fare questo e quello.
~ Amelie Nothomb
The war began in 1972. That was the year I awoke to a profound truth: no one on this earth is indispensable, except the enemy. ¶ Without an enemy, human beings are poor things indeed. Their lives are ordeals, crushed between insignificance and boredom. ¶ The enemy is the Savior. His mere existence is enough to revitalize humanity. Thanks to the enemy, that unfortunate accident called life becomes epic.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Ainsi, ils ont des vies de merde avec des boulots de merde, ils vivent dans des endroits horribles avec des personnes épouvantables, et ils poussent l'abjection jusqu'à appeler ça le bonheur.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Mon désir de vengeance m'a littéralement asphyxié.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Elle se transforma en une créature désenchantée dont l'obsession fut de ne pas sombrer dans le gouffre que cette situation avait creusé en elle.
~ Amelie Nothomb
La race humaine est ainsi faite que des êtres sains d'esprits seraient prêts à sacrifier leur jeunesse, leur corps, leurs amours, leurs amis, leur bonheur et beaucoup plus encore sur l'autel d'une fantasme appelé éternité
~ Amelie Nothomb
Très peu d'êtres humains sont réellement capables de suicide. Je suis comme la majorité, j'ai l'instinct de survie. Vous aussi.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Aquellos que, de un modo u otro, han conocido la muerte desde demasiado cerca y han regresado tienen dentro de sí su propia Eurídice: saben que en su interior existe algo que se acuerda perfectamente de la muerte y que más vale no mirarla de frente. Y es que la muerte, como una madriguera, como una habitación de persianas bajadas, como la soledad, es a la vez terrible y tentadora: uno siente que podría sentirse bien con ella.
~ Amelie Nothomb
As she went on with her labour, she became aware that she had Schubert's Erl-King going around in her head. It wasn't the ideal music for the job. Normally, Pannonique programmed her brain to play symphonies that have her the energy indispensable for such physical labour-Saint-Saens, Dvorak-but now that heart-rending Lied stuck in her skull and sapped her strength.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Io credo nel nemico. Le prove dell'esistenza di Dio sono deboli e bizantine, le prove del suo potere ancora più inconsistenti. Le prove dell'esistenza del nemico interiore sono evidenti e quelle del suo potere schiaccianti. Credo nel nemico perché, tutti i giorni e tutte le notti, lo incontro sul mio cammino. Il nemico è quello che dall'interno distrugge tutto ciò che vale.
~ Amelie Nothomb
El problema es la dimensión kamikaze de mis actos: me destruyo más a mí mismo que a mi objetivo.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Put je u svakom slucaju trnovit. Vise od dvije trecine veza ne uspiju ga prijeci. Tada se javlja neprijateljstvo, nesporazum, sutnja, katkad i mrznja. Ti se neuspjesi javljaju upravo zbog sumnje koja navodi na to kako se problem ne bi ni pojavio da je to prijateljstvo bilo doista iskreno. To nije tocno. Takva je kriza neizbjezna. Cak i ako zbilja nekog obozavamo, nismo spremni na to da bude s nama.
~ Amelie Nothomb
We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Sissie knew that she had to stop herself from crying. Why weep for them? In fact, stronger in her was the desire to ask somebody why the entire world has had to pay so much and is still paying so much for some folks' unhappiness.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
I shadow my gaze in your presence and pray you may ne'er be part, Of the hunger that class at my vitals of the evil that blackens my heart.
~ Amanda Ashley