Quotes About Struggle

The dream of peace, you understand, is a dream that comforts everyone except the soldier on the battlefield. He can't think about peace. He can't hesitate. The soldier lives in the war. In combat, war is his mother, his friend and his god. To believe in anything else is suicide.

My magic," Valkyrie said, looking at him. "Darquesse took my magic.

What is it with you women? You come into out lives, you take everythin'! Throughtout the years you got little peces of me, of my very soul, and now? Now you got my damn straight razor! How am I supposed to kill people? How am I supposed to even shave? - Billy-Ray Sanguine

Its roof sagged and let in water when it rained, its walls groaned and let in wind when it blew, and its doors creaked and let in hypocrites when it suited.

There is no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost ; there is victory and defeat. There are no absolutes. Everything inbetween is left to fight for.

I was going right for Mantis, but then that bloody gas got in my eyes and, I don't know, some massive bloke reared up in front of me. I hit him but I swear, it was like hitting a wall." Gracious nodded. "You hit a wall." Maybury blinked at him. "I what?" "I saw it. You ran into a cloud of gas and stumbled around for a second until you reached a wall, and then you shrieked and punched it. It was very heroic.

We all go through tough times." "My parents are trying to kill me." "We all have issues.

And look at me now. Seriously. Look at what all that action and adventure has done to me. I'm a frickin' basket case. - Valkyrie

matter how sharp the corner they turned or how deep the pothole they plunged into, Ghastly and Tanith remained perfectly still. Fletcher, on the other hand, was being thrown about like an old shoe in a washing machine, and he did not appreciate it.

I will heal your wounds," he said, "but I will not facilitate your battles.

her boot catching him right between the legs.

The Dead Men have had their last stand and we've fallen. The three of us are all that remain.

there are some inevitabilities you can fight against. There are some you can't.

That's the thing about redemption," said Skulduggery. "If you're looking for it, the chances are you'll never find it.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul." Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941)

There's no such thing as winning or losing. There is a wo and a lost; there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in-between is still left to fight for.

War is a drastic thing,

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.