#struggle

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#death #fact #hand #struggle #walks

I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive – those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ↗

— Osamu Dazai

#life #struggle #work #beauty

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#troubles #beauty

It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle. ↗

— Albert Claude

#create #during #experiment #live #lives

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#inner life #inordinate #largely #life #literature

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#feelings #great #had #i #lot

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#progress #struggle