Quotes About Struggle

That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense. -- By The Sea

I'm not perfect. I'm unfulfilled.

Don't fear the dark places in your mind, otherwise rage will blacken your sight.

No,' I said, 'nothing like that. Just a lot of bits and pieces to sort out, bits of life.

I was only rarely called upon to say anything in the open battlefield, although at times Emma looked accusingly at me and made me feel that I might have offered more support had I been of a less spineless constitution

Itulah dunia Gus Miek yang sebenarnya, yang ditinggalkannya untuk beberapa bulan mungkin hanya sebagai sebuah kelengkapan lakonnya yang panjang. Agar ia tetap masih menjadi manusia, bukan malaikat.

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

Soy optimista: los gobiernos crecientemente desastrosos que he visto desde que tengo uso de razón -escribió [Castillo] en 1982 en respuesta a una pregunta acerca de si vivía de la literatura-, me han hecho entender a Nietzsche: lo que no me mata me hace fuerte. Y si el dolor y la desgracia capaz de soportar un hombre son la medida de su fuerza, mi pueblo y yo somos invulnerables.

I must admit that you fascinate me, Superior. Your life would seem to be entirely unbearable. And yet you fight so very, very hard to stay alive. With every weapon and stratagem. You simply refuse to die." "I am ready to die." Glokta returned his gaze, like for like. "But I refuse to lose." ~Bayaz and Glokta

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other's blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven's love.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

It's not just a matter of having lost the land and the wealth that came with it. It's a matter of the fact that we lost a way of life that we should have been able to pass on to our children and to their children, but which we can't because of what was taken from us. (Harris Neck, Georgia native Wilson Moran as quoted by Aberjhani in The American Poet Who Went Home Again)

The only thing we knew for certain was the American Civil War was not a prelude to a kiss.

If it wasn't for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would'a been dead or someplace screamin' in a nut house a long time ago.

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by the scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?