Quotes about Struggle
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
- John Lennon
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.
- John Updike
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.
- Victor Hugo
This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.
- Anais Nin
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
- Cormac McCarthy
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
- DH Lawrence
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
- DH Lawrence
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
- Euripides
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
- George Bernard Shaw
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
- George Eliot
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
- GK Chesterton