Quotes about Struggle

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of sh.. that it demanded.

I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

There must be several young women who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them.

We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.… Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.