Quotes About Struggle

All this reverential—I'm not a saint." Ma's voice is getting loud again. "I wish people would stop treating us like we're the only ones who ever lived through something terrible. I've been finding stuff on the Internet you wouldn't believe.

The old world was changed utterly, dying on its feet, and a new one was struggling to be born.

It came to Daffy then, how easily the worst in oneself could rise up and strike a blow. How even the most enlightened man had little power over his own darkness.

Look around you, Mr. Groyne. This is where every nation draws its first breath. Women have been paying the blood tax since time began.

No entiendo por qué el dolor significa que te curas

This is where every nation draws its first breath. Women have been paying the blood tax since time began.

What people don't understand when you've already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is my mind going with this? I don't want to die. I do not want to die. When you don't have so much control over your own thoughts, over the myriad voices in your head, you don't know where they could go.

The sadness ? the general sadness that squats and pees inside my brain ? isn't over. It never will be. I know how best to chase it away, though. It usually works. Sometimes it doesn't. But I pray and say, fuck it, then. I choose this. It chooses me. I choose it back.

I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writing because I don't know how much longer I can hold on.

He meant everything he said, when he said it. But this is his default. And it won out. Right now you're depressed about one thing. Before you were depressed about everything. These are good times for you. I'm afraid of loving again. I'm afraid I've lost my faith. You haven't. The trapdoor I have in my mind? That can go to those bad places? It's almost gave way again. You know the ways to keep it nailed shut.

And then, with the feather-green darkness pressed against the windows, he puts his filthy fingers on my scrubbed hope face and says, If I kiss you, it's all over. And then he does. And then it is.

And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity.

Now here I am, seventeen with a bullet.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage. Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Industry is the ceaseless piracy of the rich against the poor.

No es necesario tener mucha inteligencia para hallar detrás de cada guerra las mismas causas.

La politique [de la dictature bolchévik] n'est qu'une variante du communisme de guerre de 1920-1921 - avec de plus en plus de guerre (de répression armée) et de moins en moins de communisme. Son égalité est celle d'un pénitencier, sa liberté celle d'un groupe de forçats enchaînés. Pas étonnant que les bolcheviks affirment que la liberté est un préjugé bourgeois.

Suurin osa ihmisistä on pakotettu tekemään asioita joita he vihaavat sekä elämään elämää jota halveksivat. Niin kauan kuin tällainen jatkuu, rikollisuus on välttämätön paha.

A rock on which the highest hopes are shattered. Life thwarts the best intentions and breaks the finest spirits," she said.

The field had to be "cleared of disturbing elements," and the Anarchists were the first to suffer. Since then the persecution of the Anarchists has never ceased.

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.

Jimmy held on to the reins for dear life, and thought that a horse was about the most slippery creature to sit on that he had ever met. He slithered first one way and then another, and at last he slid off altogether and landed with a bump on the ground. Sticky Stanley and Lotta held on to one another and laughed till the tears ran down their faces. They thought it was the funniest sight in the world to see poor Jimmy slipping about on the solemn, cantering horse.

me by my real name.' 'Oh dear – I shall never remember that