Quotes About Struggle

Baby, ain't no fun being a queen living in a kingless castle.

we take on the impossible and fell miserably!

guilt force justification!

Kindness never won a war. The kind filled many graves.

I felt it coming and it felt so good, the hollowness inside my belly, a rising savageness, a sensation of hunger that I wanted to run from, yet embrace; control, yet submit to; and all I could do was squirm.

The black man has been manipulated by the offspring of the evil bastards who kidnapped and enslaved his forefathers. A black man using the white man's Bible is the best example of Stockholm syndrome to date. If blacks are in a white man's heaven, they are janitors and maids.

They . . . had been slugging it out like Rihanna and Chris Brown on repeat . . .

Sleeping with strangers will have you walking with enemies.

Soon-Bok Kim closed her eyes, said rapid prayers in castellano, beat the steering wheel, begged God to save her and her stupid husband, said they would become better Christians.

Sweat rained from my forehead; my own salt blinded me until I wiped it all away.

we can take a kinder view of our species, as one not built well enough to handle what it has been tasked to handle, and also a tougher view, demanding of our species that it look at its shortfalls and do what it can to rise above them.

Bisogna venir qui per vedere in quante parti un uomo può esser ferito.

Mustering this sad, mutinous little force, I drove them before me up the Linar gorge, cursing the lot of them. It was not difficult for me to work up a rage at this moment. All of a sudden I felt that revulsion against an alien way of life that anyone who travels in remote places experiences from time to time. I longed for clean clothes; the company of people who meant what they said, and did it. I longed for a hot bath and a drink.

Writer's block comes from one's wanting only to write good stuff. Well, the good stuff and the bad stuff are all part of the stuff. No good stuff without bad stuff.

It wasn't her fault, but it was her fate, like so many single mothers, to be caught between a wistful child and his fantasies of the father who is perfect, in part because he is hardly ever there.

The suicide rate among ranchers and farmers in the United States is now about three times higher than the national average.

Some of the most painful and debilitating injuries are the hardest to prove.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels. —Tennessee Williams

she died of internal weeping

These bits speak history's tattered tale. How we cling to scraps, shards, sea glass- because we cannot stay.

Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity cannot take you where you need to go. Only then do you learn to row like hell, asking God for the strength to stay afloat.

women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness

Why should a bad marriage have been so much more compelling than no marriage? Why had I clung to my misery so? Why did I believe it was all I had?