Quotes about Struggle

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.

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

I can resist anything but temptation

Each narrow cell in which we dwell Is a foul and dark latrine, And the fetid breath of living Death Chokes up each grated screen, And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.