Struggle Quotes

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

It's hard enough losing without the confusion of knowing I tried.

Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

Life is a climb and it's a struggle getting to the top but the drop to the bottom can be quick and so I think you have to embrace every moment of the day.

The struggles I'm facing, The chances I'm taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I'm not breaking.

I'm just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything.

There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb.

So many cringes in the heroin binges, I was coming off the hinges, living on the fringes of my imagination.

I already had my own issues with mental health, or trauma as the buzzword is now, when the band started taking off. I think that just becoming known for who you are, and that's not someone you like much, was tough.

I used to get really defensive about the word 'depressed' back in the day because my mum was clinically ill - fucking hell, mate, if you'd seen depression, you'd know it. And I feel like that a bit about trauma - I don't want to gatekeep trauma, but ... I was really traumatised.

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.