Quotes about Struggle
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
— Oscar Wilde
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
— Oscar Wilde
Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
— Oscar Wilde
All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
— Cormac McCarthy
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
— Cormac McCarthy
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
— Cormac McCarthy
The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
— Cormac McCarthy
Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now
— Cormac McCarthy
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
— Cormac McCarthy
If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.
— Cormac McCarthy
The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.
— Cormac McCarthy
I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
— Cormac McCarthy