Quotes About Struggle

Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.

Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall.

What could a mortal say to the merciless Fate? I forced myself to my feet. A'le-Ahnleh was the traditional end to a prayer. By the will of Fate. " A'le-la, " I whispered defiantly. By my will.

I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)

Alas! it is not the renunciation of our past and future selves that is difficult; it is the steady denial of our present self which makes the disciple.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Pitam se nemamo li svi mi u sebi svog neprijatelja i kako se protiv njega boriti?Za mene je borba protiv njega ?in pisanja,trenutak kad se osje?am dovoljno snažnom.Izme?u mene i njega tad se odvija dijalog i nije slu?ajnost što u mojim knjigama ima mnogo dijaloga.Rijetko osje?am mir.

Poverty is not a respecter of man.

To love is simple but difficult

Hope is the nurse of misery.

Yehuda Amichai's lines: hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

Kissin' the dirt's the only way you'll see heaven.

Someday what's easy might not be enough

On any given day, acts of kindness occur all across the city. Someone gives up their bed so someone else can rest their tired, aching bones. Someone hands a bit of change to a stranger. There's hot soup and good fortune, soft words and bread. Then there are the cruel things that happen, the worst that you can imagine. Heaven help you if even one of them finds you. The memory of it will never let you alone.

Sickness made itself at home in their close, dark rooms, disease thriving in the absence of windows and hope.

How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead … that's the miracle.

oui, à chaque pas dans la vie, on rencontre une déception, une désillusion, une humiliation.

Merasa diperlakukan tidak adil kadang bisa menimbulkan luka, tetapi kadang juga bisa menyembuhkan luka, dan bahkan kadang juga bisa membunuh orang yang merasakannya. Tetapi bagi wanita, perasaan itu lebih sering menjadi alasan yang kuat untuk bertahan

Someone other than I might have used the word "roots". It is not part of my vocabulary. I don't like the word, and I like even less the image it conveys. Roots burrow into the ground, twist in the mud, and thrive in darkness; they hold trees in captivity from their inception and nourish them at the price of blackmail: "Free yourself and you'll die