All F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Quotes about “Struggle”

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.”
“He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.”
“Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as â€œcruelty.”
“Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegroâ€™s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegroâ€™s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.”
“But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.”
“The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.”

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