striving for survival Quotes

She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

I'm very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.

I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.

It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.