Quotes About Struggle

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace.

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.

I think so many times we feel like we're lacking something in our lives and we try to fill it with the wrong things. Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's a relationship you shouldn't be in.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

family relationships have made me so ill!

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.

In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.

You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.