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Quotes About Struggle

And death hasn't come. It never does come when you call it. It enjoys torturing us. I've been calling for it for years and it pays me no attention
~ Ágota Kristóf
Seen nothing? Idiot! We have all the work and all the worry: children to feed, wounds to tend. Once the war is over, you men are all heroes. The dead: heroes. The survivors: heroes. The maimed: heroes. That's why you invented war. It's your war. You wanted it, so get on with it – heroes, my ass!
~ Ágota Kristóf
Mais vous venez de dire : « La douleur diminue, les souvenirs s'estompent. » L'insomniaque lève les yeux sur Lucas : — Diminuer, s'estomper, je l'ai dit, oui, mais non pas disparaître.
~ Ágota Kristóf
I don't think. I can't allow myself the luxury. I've lived with fear since I was a child.
~ Ágota Kristóf
Un uomo dice: - Tu chiudi il becco! Le donne non sanno niente della guerra. La donna dice: - Non sanno niente? Coglione! Abbiamo tutto il lavoro, tutte le preoccupazioni: i bambini da sfamare, i feriti da curare. Voi, una volta finita la guerra siete tutti degli eroi. Morti: eroi. Sopravvissuti: eroi. Mutilati: eroi. E' per questo che avete inventato la guerra, voi uomini. E' la vostra guerra. L'avete voluta voi, fatela allora, eroi dei miei stivali!
~ Ágota Kristóf
Quello che mi interessa sapere è se scrive delle cose vere o delle cose inventate. Le rispondo che cerco di scrivere delle storie vere, ma, a un certo punto, la storia diventa insopportabile proprio per la sua verità e allora sono costretto a cambiarla. Le dico che cerco di raccontare la mia storia, ma che non ci riesco, non ne ho il coraggio, mi fa troppo male. Allora abbellisco tutto e descrivo le cose non come sono accadute, ma come avrei voluto che accadessero.
~ Ágota Kristóf
Hay vidas más tristes que el más triste de todos los libros".
~ Ágota Kristóf
Je parle le français depuis plus de trente ans, je l'écris depuis vingt ans, mais je ne le connais toujours pas. Je ne le parle pas sans fautes, et je ne peux l'écrire qu'avec l'aide de dictionnaires fréquemment consultés. C'est pour cette raison que j'appelle la langue française une langue ennemie, elle aussi. Il y a encore une autre raison, et c'est la plus grave : cette langue est en train de tuer ma langue maternelle. -L'Analphabète
~ Ágota Kristóf
In vain does the disguised traveller inwardly rebel against the influences and impressions which are wearing away his real self. The impressions of the past lose more and more their hold on him until they fade away, leaving the traveller hopelessly struggling in the toils of his own fiction, and the rôle he had assumed soon becomes second nature with him.
~ Ármin Vámbéry
Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
~ Aaron Allston
My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
~ Aaron Carter
Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn." "That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's a lie.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the stars fell, when the seas boiled and the earth burned, my faith didn't die. That is when I began to believe. God was real, and he hated us.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
And as man turned from the light of day, all that was left to him was the endless night. Without contrast, he threw open his arms, and darkness took hold.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Existence is strife." "To strive is to live.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Freedom is the only thing worth fighting for. It is why tyrants always fall. - Primarch Angron
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Some truths were too ugly to be easily embraced.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
We called them false angels. You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the stars fell, when the seas boiled and the earth burned, my faith didn't die. That is when I began to believe. God was real, and he hated us.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
No one is a hero at 4:00 a.m.,
~ Aaron Elkins
they had been doomed to birth and condemned to live.
~ Aaron Fletcher
The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.
~ Aaron Huey
One more spin around the sun... Ain't nuthin' changed. Still got trouble on my mind. Still got suckas that need to get dealt with... Still in mortal combat with the wicked....
~ Aaron McGruder
We're all in crashing plane, and everybody is fighting over who gets to sit in first class.
~ Aaron Nordquist
Perhaps," the half-breed admitted. "But why fight when there is no need? Why fight just for its own sake? That is not fighting to save anyone, or to win anything, or even for glory. It is fighting from sheer bloodlust, from love of violence alone. And I am sick of that. I want no part of it.
~ Aaron Rosenberg