Quotes about Struggle
I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
— David Brainerd
We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
— John Eldredge
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.
— CS Lewis
There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The biggest battle in life is with yourself.
— Dennis Prager
I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
— Dorothy Day
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
— Elie Wiesel
It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
— Margaret Atwood
Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.
— Martin Luther