Quotes about Struggle

My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was also deported.

I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

The only time I really enjoyed myself before was when I was training. Besides that, everything else was an absolute nightmare. It was all about self.

The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.

One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.

We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star, there is pain

She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

He did not wring his hands, as do Those witless men who dare To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave of black Despair.