Quotes about Struggle

He also wearied his mother very often. She saw the sunshine going out of him, and she resented it.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habits, to have new little hopes.

Yet there she stood under the self-accusation of wanting him, tied to that stake of torture.

But beneath the populace of pleasure lay the populace of work, grim, grimy, and rather terrible.

When Clifford became really roused in his feelings about the common people, Connie was frightened. There was something devastatingly true in what he said. But it was a truth that killed.

Because, after all, like so many modern men, he was finished almost before he had begun. And that forced the woman to be active.

There had come into his forehead a knitting of the brows which was becoming habitual with him, particularly when he was with Miriam. She longed to smooth it away, and she was afraid of it. It seemed the stamp of a man who was not her man in Paul Morel.

Well, if one had to prostitute oneself, let it be to a bitch-goddess!

Frequently he hated Miriam. He hated her as she bent forward and pored over his things. He hated her way of patiently casting him up, as if he were an endless psychological account. When he was with her, he hated her for having

A man has to fend and fettle for the best, and then trust in something beyond himself. You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best of you and in the power beyond it.

For some things, said his aunt, it was a good thing Paul was ill that Christmas. I believe it saved his mother. Paul

Some sort of perversity in our souls makes us not want, get away from, the very thing we want. We have to fight against that.