Strife Quotes - Page 16

• Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Age, Youth, Aging

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.205, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Heart, Blood

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.117

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• Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Stars, Regret, Wings

  "A Legend of Provence" l. 284 (1861)

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• Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strive

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• Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and these strivings are what constitutes and characterizes the peculiarity of human life.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Animal, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.46, Routledge

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• Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.

  Bertrand Russell

  One Direction, May, Reason

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.100, Psychology Press

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• Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beauty, Years, White

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.

  Saadi

  Sex, Husband, Wife

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• Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Forever, Generations

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1099, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

  Robert Burns

  Men, Church, Damnation

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• Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence, --the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will establish well-being for all.

  Emma Goldman

  Struggle, Mean, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

  Euripides

  Life, Trying, Affair

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.175, University of Chicago Press

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• If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Saws

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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• He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

  Aesop

  Discord

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.87

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• There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

  Tertullian

  God, Way, Humans

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• The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

  Georges Duhamel

  Sea, Land, Horizon

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Nature, Men, Hands

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.8, Univ of California Press

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• When a man has reverence for life, he will never do anything to harm, hinder or destroy life. Instead he bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. He strives to maintain, enhance and assist life to make the most of itself.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Destiny, Effort, Reverence For Life

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• Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will never be without strife and grief. Thus, we should not strive for a peace that is without temptation, or for a life that never feels adversity. Peace is not found by escaping temptations, but by being tried by them. We will have discovered peace when we have been tried and come through the trial of temptation.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Grief, Adversity

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• Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.

  Irving Howe

  Writing, Unity, Doe

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• I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.

  Eva Hoffman

  Passion, Past, Knowing

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• Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife,
  Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have place
  Amid the tumult of reverberant strife
  'Twixt ancient creeds, 'twixt race and ancient race,
  That mars the grave, glad purposes of life,
  Leaving no refuge save thy succoring face?

  Sarojini Naidu

  Dream, Hope, Sweet

  Shiri R. Bakshi, Sarojini Naidu, Bishamber D. Yadav (1990). “Struggle for independence: Indian freedom fighters. Sarojini Naidu”

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• It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice... Unless labor is employed, capital cannot increase - it cannot concentrate. Unless property rights are held inviolable and capital thereby encouraged to high enterprise, labor is left without a lever with which to lift itself to perfect life and must sink back to barbarism.

  William Cowper Brann

  Ignorance, Rights, Perfect

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• I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

  Van Morrison

  Relationship, Trouble, Wells

  Song: Underlying Depression, Album: Days Like This

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• Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Forgiveness, Mistake, Errors

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

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