Struggles Quotes
647 Struggles quotes by 479 unique authors
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Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage…
— George Santayana
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Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children,…
— Betty Friedan
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Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may…
— Arthur Golden
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Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is…
— Richard Bach
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
— Victor Hugo
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Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water…
— Betty Smith
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In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when…
— Karl Rahner
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The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to…
— Jack Zipes
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But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture…
— Kenneth Grahame
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I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in…
— Nhat Hanh
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All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially…
— Octavia Butler
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Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive…
— Susan Sontag
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders,…
— Tim O'Brien
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We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting…
— Michel Foucault
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If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t…
— Bell Hooks
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For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
— Barry Lopez
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Certainly, none of us enjoy going through struggles, but you have to understand that your struggle may be an opportunity for advancement and promotion. The…
— Joel Osteen
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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If…
— Denis Johnson
Who Wrote These Struggles Quotes
479 authors contributed a total of 647 Struggles Quotes, led by these top contributors: