Painful Struggle Quotes

#1. Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.

Leopold Infeld

#2. Unfortunately the next day was not the vast, extraneous expanse of time which I had feverishly looked forward. When it drew to a close my laziness and my painful struggle to overcome internal obstacles had simply lasted twenty-four hours longer.

Marcel Proust

#3. Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.

Octavio Paz

#4. Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

Albert Camus

#5. Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

Ho Chi Minh

#7. The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures
these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.

Howard Mumford Jones

#8. It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

Osamu Dazai

#9. Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. movement behind us, each of us had to overcome deeply held values and traditional social strictures. The struggle was personally painful and

Lynn Povich

#11. Change means growth, and growth can be painful. But we sharpen self-definition by exposing the self in work and struggle together with those whom we define as different from ourselves, although sharing the same goals. (151)

Stewart Burns

#12. Real love is sometimes painful. It isn't just the highest of the high - it's also the lowest of the low. It's being on that bottom rung, holding on with half a finger as you struggle to breathe through the pain.

Ella Fox

#13. Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Norman Vincent Peale

#14. I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#15. It seemed that Dudley was struggling with concepts too difficult to put into words. After several moments of apparently painful internal struggle he said, "But where's he going to go?

J.K. Rowling

#16. Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

Joseph Stalin

#17. Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue
an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.

Shoshana Zuboff

#18. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

George Orwell

#19. There's a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life ... We who struggle with these disorders can lead full, happy, productive lives, if we have the right resources.

Elyn R. Saks

#20. Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

Gloria Allred

#21. As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.

Nicholas Sparks

#22. Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.

Emmett Tyrrell

#23. We all struggle. Life is not fun. A lot of times, it's really painful and hard. Sometimes it's really funny. 'Foxcatcher' is kind of like a metaphor for that.

Mark Schultz

#24. Just as in sports, becoming an elite performer in business requires struggle, sacrifice, and honest (often painful) self-assessment... Learning how to implement these approaches is often what separates a brilliant thinker from a creative want-to-be.

G. Michael Maddock