Quotes about Struggle

But, in yourself, you said that you would write about these people ... and for once it would be written by some one who knew what he was writing of. But he would never do it, because each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

You saw fear and apprehension. The fear was made by what he had been through. The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined.

God pity the Spanish people. Any leader they have will muck them.

The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley

The man isn't born for defeats.He can fall from grace,but he cannot be defeated.

To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.

I'm going back to Mike." I could feel her crying as I held her close. "He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.

If one must die, he thought, and clearly one must, I can die. But I hate it.

Perhaps wars weren't won any more. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings, that were his pectoral fins, spread wide and all his wide lavender stripes showing. He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and he had stayed.

I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this, he said. Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now.