Quotes about Struggle

You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!

It's a pity he cannot kill himself with drink.

Now all is dashed wrong; by the fool's craving to hear evil of self, that haunts some people like a demon!

It's unutterably too much for flesh and blood to bear, even mine.

I can't rest now, Nelly, although I'm so tired. You may as well tell a man who's struggling through the sea to rest within an arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

You have left me so long to struggle against death alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

You fight against that devil, for love, as long as you may; when the time comes, not all the angels in heaven shall save him!

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.

The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her

Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.

Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council.