Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

“last the play was ended. All had grown dark. The tears streamed down his face. Looking up into the sky there was nothing but…

— Virginia Woolf

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

— Horace

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it…

— Washington Irving

There are things that God hates, right? One of them is the one who stirs up strife.

— John MacArthur

In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to…

— Violet Fane

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

— Saadi

“There’s a lot of stress and strife in this world. The people you surround yourself with intentionally, that you care about and share things…

— Erin Nicholas

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best…

— Anonymous

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being…

— Denis Dutton

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and…

— Lorenzo Scupoli

Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will…

— Thomas a Kempis

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was…

— Patti Smith

A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

— John Dewey