Determination Quote by Diet Eman

“I began running so as to punish myself, left street after street behind me, pushed myself on with inward jeers, and screeched silently and…

— Knut Hamsun

“Trembling as usual, I dropped to one knee and, holding on to the drum with one hand, looked up, wondering what he, my boss,…

— Bohumil Hrabal

“I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and conscience, turned…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Pause for a moment, you wretched weakling, and take stock of yourself.”

— Don DeLillo

“When from out of error’s darkness With a word both sure and ardent I had drawn the fallen soul, And you, filled with deepest…

— Anonymous

“I often heard this melodious hymn again in days of hardship, and it always affected me painfully. Not as the reproachful warning clang of…

— Sven Anders Hedin

“And so when you have lost everything, no more roads, no direction, no fixed signs, no ground, no thoughts able to resist other thoughts,…

— Hélène Cixous

In going under the water I had been obliged to let go my hold upon the rope; and finding that I was completely beneath…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I am banished from the patient men who fight. They smote my heart to pity, built my pride. Shoulder to aching shoulder, side by…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“When you surrender, you live in eager anticipation of the surprise. The dual weights of yearning and despair are cast off.”

— Annette Vaillancourt

“Before, as I walked about, either on my hunting, or for viewing the country, the anguish of my soul at my condition would break…

— Daniel Defoe

“To the extreme of this feeling I was ever a victim. The heavy responsibility, often suddenly and unexpectedly imposed—the struggle for success, when success…

— John William Polidori