Quotes About Struggle

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

Tears upon the dry sponge of heart do not prove I am Promethean.

I do worship ancient hungers and chains dripping blood, but I am so tired of the taste of my heart.

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

Being a color in Texas is to wake stressed from being.

Satan wants you for a storm cloud, baby.

Chemo is a little death that you invite in in order to keep the big death waiting outside on the porch.

The Bible says that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Well, trouble followed me like sharks trailing a slave ship. Even when I tried to get away it was there swirling in a vortex around me.

It wasn't often that anyone admitted their mistakes to Mercedes; the default posture of poverty was defense. Cesar told her that he hoped his degree would make Mercedes proud of him when he came home.

There's a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are "making a living". No, they're not. They're dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.

If there was one truth that I'd learned from all my reading, it was this: Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene. This time, that someone was me.

But I also found my depression tedious—tedious to live through, tedious to explain, tedious to be around. I was bored by my own relentless loop and felt sure I was boring everyone around me.

Living hell is the best revenge.

Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.

Nothing about us is right. We're the wrongest kids you've ever seen. Our faces are wrong with zits, we have the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, and I think we might be ugly. Our families are wrong because none of us are rich, our bodies are wrong because we suck at sports, and there's something really wrong with all of our personalities, because nobody likes us, not even the teachers. Teachers make fun of us too, and think we don't notice.

and I was a really fat kid, and that's why I do this to myself.

It's like getting the best Christmas gift ever, but Santa decided to kick the crap out of you before you unwrapped it.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.The beak that grips her, she becomes.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment--that explodes in poetry.

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.