Quotes About Struggle

Había pasado por la vida en un estado de oposición y exasperación, ofendiendo y siendo ofendido sin motivo ni escrúpulos.

Un alma derrotada, torturada por sí misma,que habría podido hacer mucho de haber nacido en una época ó ambiente apropiado.

El temperamento y las circunstancias de este hombre desgraciado habían estado en guerra con su talento.

Un hombre que se deslizaba desesperadamente cuesta abajo, incapaz de pagarse la ropa, la luz ó los alimentos; viviendo igual que una rata en el fondo de una embarcación abandonada, escurriéndose furtivamente por calles laterales, sufriendo a causa del talento frustrado y las oportunidades desperdiciadas.

Revolutions in short are made in the name of the proletariat, not by it, and usually in countries where the proletariat hardly exists.

Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all serious illnesses do.

nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do you love best, and who most do you want with you? Blithering idiots: it's life itself, can't you see? It's life I love best, and life I want with me. Go hang yourselves, all of you, you're only sapping my strength when most I need it. Leave me in peace and let me grapple.

Flux heightens is into knots of staid tension.

anybody doesn't believe in reality should try to start a dead car on a 10-degree morning:

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

AKOBA: This is a general osogbo denoting things that are not good in our lives. While it is an osogbo in itself, Akoba works in conjunction with other osogbos to promote an environment of weakness and destruction. It can lead to sickness (Ano or Aro) and death (Ikú) if it is not fought.

I haven't the strength to be happy, she wants to say. I can hardly even manage to be unhappy.

And the feeling that washed over him was like the feeling you get when your new puppy pees in the house for the hundredth time. Exhaustion in the face of how crap everything is.

It's the job, she thought. I work too hard. That's why my thoughts go round and round at night, like a hamster on a squeaking wheel.

She is afraid of depression. It skulks around her house like a shadow: a giant, slow and remorseless. It will be like leaving the door wide-open if she keeps on like this, messing up her routines. So all the giant has to do is crouch down, step inside and get her.

I read and reread these pages all day long as I sat next to the cast-iron stove. In the absence of coal, we burned wooden boards pilfered from the rubble of destroyed houses in order to keep warm in these chilly early days of spring. In times of plenty my appetite had always been small, but now I often went hungry.

Les manières de souffrir: Il y a la peur. La peur est terrible et le silence qui la noie encore plus. Il y a la colère, l'enragement quand j'ai cogné ma tête sur le mur de ma chambre. Il y a parfois la pitié qui me donne les yeux d'une fourmi. Et puis la tristesse qui est triste et qui dure.

Ce n'était pas prévu. Le monde était ainsi pourtant, en suspens, en attente. Et j'allais devoir me battre maintenant.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Quand la volonté et l'imagination sont en lutte, c'est toujours l'imagination qui l'emporte, sans aucune exception

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.

C'est le peuple qui s'asservit, qui se coupe la gorge, qui, ayant le choix ou d'être serf ou d'être libre, quitte la franchise et prend le joug, qui consent à son mal, ou plutôt le pourchasse.

No book, no matter how sad, can be as sad as a life.