Quotes about Struggle

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.

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. 

Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lie If this night before God's throne should stand.

Sponsors dropped him, his wife left him, and his golf skills suffered greatly.