Quotes about Struggle
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
— Martha Graham
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices
— Virginia Woolf
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
— Ernest Hemingway
Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
— Harriet Tubman
That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.
— Samuel Beckett
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
— Bob Marley
My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.
— Nelson Mandela
There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.
— Theodore Roosevelt
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.
— Abraham Lincoln
I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
— David Brainerd
Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.
— Anne Frank