Quotes about Struggle

Just because it's your brain does not mean it's on your side.

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

And you love Edgar, and Edgar loves you. All seems smooth and easy: where is the obstacle? Here! and here! replied Catherine, striking one hand on her forehead, and another on her breast: in whichever place the soul lives. In my soul and in my heart, I'm convinced I'm wrong!

The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.

Being repulsed continually hardened her.

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!