Quotes About Struggle

Come l'ardita e cupa prora di una nave, l'Aiguille Noire fende i flutti dell'aria portati dalla tempesta. Ciuffi di nubi salgono verticali sopra la cresta, come bandiere. Noi invece siamo qui, schiacciati contro la parete. Le nebbie fluttuano sopra di noi, sprazzi di luce, là dove comincia la neve.

The world is chaos, punctuated by brief outbreaks of civilization.

The West had become lost—struggling to remember what it was and losing sight of what it aspired to be.

How can I fight so hard for freedom only to be enticed by captivity?

My devil is winning.

I try to forget that only this morning I had lost control.

Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's the end you need to worry about.

The light gave him hope but he was afraid of it too.

Childhood is the time of man's greatest content. 'Tis during these years of innocent pleasure that the little ones are most free from care. [...] Their joy is in being alive, and they do not stop to think. In after-years the doom of mankind overtakes them, and they find they must struggle and worry, work and fret, to gain the wealth that is so dear to the hearts of men.

It is useless to fight people with shooting heads; no one can withstand them.

It was a good fight, friend.

How can I help being a humbug. . .when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?

You must walk. It is a long journey, through a country that is sometimes pleasant and sometimes dark and terrible.

The throne belongs to whoever is able to take it.

a dash to liberty or to death. The

He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was.

In geometry Anne met her Waterloo. "It's perfectly awful stuff, Marilla," she groaned. "I'm sure I'll never be able to make heads or tail of it. There is not scope for imagination in it at all.

Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.

Il guaio delle fantasticherie è che arriva sempre il momento in cui bisogna cancellarle. Ed è un gran brutto momento.

The bitterest kind of heartache—the ache that burns and gnaws and cannot wash itself away in ready tears.

And although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

E embora valha muito a pena ter ambições, elas não são conquistadas a pouco custo: demandam seu quinhão de trabalho e abnegação, ansiedade e desânimo.

The trouble with two partners having separate sets of mortal enemies is that said enemies don't always make distinctions.

These recent weeks have taught me that I am not in control of my own destiny, and that powers much larger than I are at war in this world. I can only be faithful to the tasks set before me. The rest is out of my hands.