Best Personal Struggle Quotes

"I want to be perfect like everybody else when it comes to their lives, but I find that hard, and I want to cry when I can't do anything that other people can do."

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"I hate my life because I'm worth nothing and I feel like I'm incapable of everything that is presented to me."

Anonymous

"Benjamin Kyle had amnesia, and he doesn't know what happened during 20 years of his life."

"It feels great, empowering because I struggled with mental health like most of my life."

"Enough is enough. For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation, and my legacy."

"Our greatest battles are those with our own minds."

"I was seeking closure to a relationship with someone that I barely knew - the kid who killed my mother and brother."

"I had lost some IQ. I had lost my brain power... I was a straight-A student before the accident... now I was struggling for D's, and everything was hard."

"I want to go through with this to prove not only to myself but maybe other people out there that struggle with the same thing that sometimes you don't gotta listen to your brain and it's just trying to play tricks on you."

"Bill Tippett suffered from anxiety and depression his whole life, and managed to live with it by creating things."

"Our biggest battles with ourselves are our ability to succeed or fail in this world is based on how much we truly believe in our ability to succeed."

"He definitely battled his demons... I truly think that even he himself was never able to fully comprehend the true extent of his abilities."

"Exposing her on this show last year, I left the stage and burst into tears because exposing her was awful."

"The book is called 'Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,' and the big terrible thing is, of course, your struggles with addiction."

"No one should go through life feeling poorly about themselves not living up to their utmost potential because of a scar."

"I'm so conflicted about it. Help me, help all of us."

"The main place of battle is not in the spiritual realm; it's about a two-inch span between this ear and this ear. There is a battle in the mind."

"So many of our struggles come from our lack of courage to let ourselves be imperfect."

"Life's meaning is found in pushing back against that which enshackles you."

"When I think back to that time in my life, I struggle."

"I was in a really bad spot, so this is the cope."

"It's called self-compassion. It's perhaps the thing I've struggled the most with."

"Even if you are struggling, it doesn't justify horrible actions, even if that is some form of a coping mechanism."

"I want to tell you about some of the things I've struggled with with anxiety attacks and panic attacks."

"Life is hard enough without your brain fighting against you."

"I went to rehab three times by the time I turned 15."

"One of the most difficult things is for a woman to be with a good man she's not in love with."

"Social media is a hell hole that I'm trying to dig myself out of every single day."

"It's really easy for me to hate myself; it's been always hard to like myself."

"I just didn't want to be alive anymore. And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought."

"No matter my mess, the voice of God never left me. God will talk to me in all my foolishness."

"I'm actually as much as I still struggle with myself, pretty happy with who I am."

"How many of us struggle with impatience? Impatience in traffic, impatience with your children, impatience, for me, with brothers."

"I tossed and turned in bed but couldn't fall asleep...my son had been suffering from a severe depression...I shouted 'my son is dead' and I started sobbing savagely."

"God forbid I exude confidence and enjoy sex. Do you think I relish the fact that I have to act like Mary Sunshine 24/7 so I can be considered a lady? I'm the Marcia fucking Brady of the Upper East Side and sometimes I want to kill myself."

"My hands shake, I wake up screaming. I have to live with the trauma and the damage done to me."

"People do bad things for good reasons, and sometimes the most powerful enemy is not the one who wields power over a throne, but an abandoned soldier who has nothing left to lose."

"Therapy doesn't heal everyone. There are people that go to therapy and they still have demons that haunt them every single night."

"The world of media... tends to tell you what humanity looks like... when you go home to a mess... you just feel like it's wrong."

"I've always been extremely anxious. I cried every single day of school until probably fourth grade, embarrassingly long time."

"I know who I am, and I know who I'm not, and not letting OCD kind of dictate that."

"Each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed."

"Spider-Man was a dude who was just struggling day in and day out."

"I can't turn off my life. I can't turn off my memories."

"I want to talk about all the ups and downs, everything that I've struggled with with addiction and not just paint it as some horrible, horrible, disgusting, ugly thing."

"To me, the magic of Celeste is found in its ability to link the struggles of Madeline with those of the player."

"Whatever this struggle is, this personal struggle they've been going through or went through in the past, they've definitely learned from it."

"Don't let the demons destroy you...don't give up, slay those demons and take your soul back."

"I'm a born-again Christian. That is what I relied on to get me through harder times in college, and I could definitely encourage anybody else who's struggling with that same thing. That is what will be your anchor which will get you through the storm."

"I'm 33 years old and I still struggle with my ADHD sometimes."

"I hear the demons clear when they're calling."

"I have had a lifelong struggle with anxiety."

"Your video today has been quite frankly inspiring. It was everything I needed to hear and a reminder the struggle is worth it."

"It's understandable that you got this way; you had to defend yourself and fight to exist."

"He was simply a guy with an immensely deep backstory that was doing his best to cope with the unfortunate circumstances plaguing his health."

"I struggled with racing thoughts, an inability to focus on tasks, trouble listening without getting distracted, and my short-term memory being shot too."

"Jesse gave that speech about not killing himself, he's not suicidal, and then six days later he walks out of jail."

"She was quite brave, but she was honest with him and added that she almost gave up her family because of him."

"If you got hell in your head, you got hell in your life."

"I try my best. It's just, it's hard sometimes."

"Naruto Uzumaki is the definition of an underdog: a boy who wanted to be heard, a boy who never gave up, and a boy who fought every day against a demon inside of him that he never asked to have."

"One of the beautiful, deep, rich, wonderful evidences of the work of the Holy Spirit that you are a child of God is that you hate your sin and make war on it."

"For me, the only person I'm interested in pleasing is your wife, and I'm struggling with that most of the time."

"Even if things are bad, you can rise up against them. It's hopeful."

"If it's something that you're really struggling with... if the person that you're trying to talk to ends up rejecting you because of it, that doesn't say anything about you at all."

"I've been treated as an outcast my entire life, and I'm not taking it anymore."

"It's here that Ye gets more personal than anyone could have seen coming, painstakingly reciting the words 'I'm losing my family' over and over."

"Your mess doesn't scare me... that's exactly where he shines and where he wants to be is ministering in that place."

"The only person I suffer from is Cena McFarland."

"All of us are fighters; some fight differently."

"You have no idea what I went through, the awful choices I had to make."

"I love that I'm fighting Skynet but in the shape of scorpions."

"I struggled with anxiety and depression for a very long time."

"It's clear what Mr. Robot is trying to tell us... Elliot's pain, his madness, his delusionment, his loneliness, the byproduct of a culture that he lives in, his warped and corroded habitus."

"Despite the colossal opportunities that have come his way, Airsoft Fatty has struggled to keep it together."

"Obsession doesn't even begin to describe what I was dealing with. Addiction was a far more accurate word."

"I'll be lying awake counting all the mistakes I've made, replaying fights. I'm gonna be all right, but I'm not tonight."

"I've always been a horrible seller. I've always had trouble letting things go. I become so attached to things."

"They've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile. I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back."

"Beyoncé makes her emotions, her personal struggles, and her intentions painfully clear on so many of these tracks."

"Look man, I'm just devastated that I'm not as broken as you still are with everything that's happened, and I'm sorry that I can't keep helping you carry this burden."

"I appreciate you rejecting doomerism in the moment because that's something I struggle with...there's plenty of reason to have hope."

"It's not just the glorious going out and making it happen, but that does happen. You have to do that, but there's also the other part where it's you sitting at home by yourself in the gloomy dark, and you're just there and you're like, okay, let's dive into these demons."

"It's you going through this, not anybody else. It's you. You talk about it if and when you are ready."

"In September of 2023, Angela Lee would write an article for Players Tribune entitled 'Resilient,' detailing her struggles, the twists and turns of the darkest period of her life."

"I'm trying really, really hard to have work-life balance."

"That night I literally could have been in an insane asylum... It was pain inside me that nobody know."

"I do digital art but I used to do traditional art, and just the other day, I was in the shower, just letting the water run down my face to mask my tears as I think about all my failures as a human being."

"No matter how hard I work, there will always be people who perceive me as getting a leg up, and it's one of those things that will just haunt you for the rest of your life in everything that you do."

"I'm all right. I'm trying to hang in there. I am not gonna let it get the best out of me because I don't want to ruin your day."

"She's really struggling with the idea of being alone and not with him."

"I feel like he's the most relatable of heroes... Peter makes mistakes; he has ups and downs in his career, his relationships, his family. I think we can all relate to that."

"I know I'll never give up. I know I'll make it out my situation."

"Every single moment, it may not be out in here, but there's a war that goes on in here all the time with ourselves. And you can't win that war with only light."

"Mountain after Mountain, rain after rain, I really was broken, shattered, and I just didn't feel like I was myself."

"Here I am again, oh but there's really nothing funny about this situation."

"I struggle to comprehend myself. My fate is one on which no one would envy."

"That never occurred to me before, to be honest with you, and the effort that I made not to eat, I felt was personally heroic."

"I tried, Vlad, I tried to change my life, go to a good school. I was trying to actually live two lives. I would be selling drugs all day, all night with my friends, and then go to school to a school where nobody knew me. I could just really be Corey. I didn't have to live the street life of Buu life, you know, my street names."

"For so many years, I hated meeting new people and going out. I felt insignificant and scared in social situations."

"I suffer from big ego, low self-esteem... if it's got something to do with my work, I'm the baddest [expletive] alive, but anything else, it's like I just feel not worthy of anyone's attention, anyone's love, any accolades."

"There are days when it's even difficult, even for me, the eternal optimist, to remain optimistic."

"This may sound cliché, but I don't consider myself brave...All I did was listen to what they said and fight every urge in my body which told me to give up."

"It doesn't work like that; people don't make sound decisions for themselves when they're in their addiction."

"I'm [ __ ] done. I mean, does anyone ever think about me? What I have to go through? You know, the things I've seen? Arch[ __ ] this. You're [ __ ] going home."

"When does she get the chance to prove herself? Going through hardships in your mid-20s should not result in a life sentence under a conservatorship."

"Veronica Lake: a reluctant star who drank deep from the cup of Fame."

"Life is hard enough. Nikki, that's what I'm telling you. Life is hard enough. Like, I don't need your help."

"All it really is always is you versus the system."

"That's chasing the dragon, brother. Yeah, he's chasing the high. It's been a theme here on this show with basically everyone I've talked to."

"It's wild to me because I think back to 2020 and 2020 was such a hard time for so many people."

"I wish I could tell you he held fast to that confession every moment of his life."

"I wish I could tell you that I didn't have a voice inside my head that tells me I'm a pathetic hypocrite and I have no business being a preacher, even though I'm trying to live the best I can."

"The hardest part for me is... the financials."

"It's exhausting to feel negative and to feel angry and like frustrated and bitter and judgmental. It's just really taking like a toll on me."

"Someone may have been trying to make out like they're okay, but deep down behind closed doors, they're crying, they're in a lot of sadness."

"I'm sure this is probably the hardest time of his life being stolen away from the sport that he's played his entire life."

"It's harder to be a conservative and come out as a conservative than it is to be gay."

"A lot of times, if there were loud noises or flashing lights, Nicholas couldn't get himself to participate."

"Rand's story is many things: the tale of an escapee from Soviet rule, of a traumatized immigrant who lived out the American Dream, but more than anything, it's the tale of a woman who did her best to live life on her own terms."

"Diminish is a game built by Will's sibling while they were dying as a method of coping with their situation."

"I fought y'all. I loved hard. I've forgiven. I put the work in. I've given everything I have and now I have nothing else to give."

"It's awful to watch a person basically unraveling through their world."

"I hope that everything will be okay cuz if not I will lose my hope in a better future."

"The strongest feeling was a solace in a dark uncaring world."

"I couldn't save Mara, but I wasn't going to let it take my daughter."

"Bieber is opening up about the mental health issues she now faces following a mini-stroke last March."

"If anyone wants to see the face of what opioid addiction does, you're looking at it, this is a horrible, horrible disease."

"Writing is hard work, but it's not as hard as doing neither because then you're a mess, you're anxious and without purpose."

"I just hope she's okay at the end of the day, like this is a pregnant lady who has a whole life to live and she doesn't need to be dealing with any like Universal glitches right now."

"Sharing is caring, but man I am not in a great situation."

"Oprah's openness about personal struggles underscores her commitment to making a positive impact."

"Gratitude is what makes you fight every time."

"Imagine how hard this must have been for Maya. Like imagine everyone in your life starts telling you that you became your best friend, you need to get back to being your true self."

"I feel like I've been at War for the last six months."

"We create our own hell... addiction in many ways which the devil represents can be about our own succumbing to our baggage."

"A lot of us were forced and cornered into facing our mental health this past year including me."

"Struggled to accept his role in the world, Korra never wanted to be anything else."

"They're gone, man, now I don't wish I had this problem."

"The fight to be free of whatever is haunting her has to start with her."

"Nowhere in there have I had time to grieve for any of the losses."

"I've cried in the shower because of you, because of frustration. I'm tearing up now."

"Once you are cursed, that's the rest of your life, baby."

"He's just a small foolish man running away from his own insecurities."

"The greatest fight is figuring out how to control yourself."

"We're all struggling. We don't know what the [ __ ] we're doing in life. We're just winging it."

"The anger and grief of her brother dying is fueling her. She's going to get across that [__] Bridge because there's no way her sister Mera is losing another sibling."

"What's happening in your head is your dream right now. People's problem is not that life is not happening the way they want it, even their dream is not happening the way they want it."

"Also I literally have COVID right now and I am really, really not doing well today."

"I know what it's like to have a mental breakdown, I know what it's like to be manic constantly, and it's really, really frustrating and it's really, really difficult. It's literally like being a prisoner in your own head."

"Why is everything so fing hard right now bro?"

"Addiction wasn't your problem, addiction was your solution to a problem."

"She was not crazy she was just a very gifted beautiful empathic woman that struggled with her gifts."

"Under the shimmering veneer was a woman troubled by an unhappy marriage and personal insecurities."

"Your current energy is suffering in silence."

"I have nothing else to live for. I have no plan B."

"Dan ended up moving out... and she felt like she was trying everything."

"Thank you so much for the $50.00 bomb, I lost my job so this is the rest of my money, but I just want to judge how thankful for you I am."

"Honestly, I hear that and I feel that so so much. Honestly, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't wonder if any of this is worth doing because the stress and pressure of this strange public life is really overwhelming."

"Fear is the constant, most persistent enemy of the Christian."

"You're always that far away from getting gobbled up by the monster, which is to me, it could be depression."

"The Trump administration has failed us. Trump has failed working families."

"Honestly, I went through some things, man. It was not a good time, but I made it through, I persevered."

"Inside every person there are two bears forever locked in combat for your soul."

"She makes several mistakes along the way and her frustration prompts her to run outside crying."

"That day would soon turn her and her family's lives into a nightmare."

"Scalp health is something that I find first of all it was something I struggled to talk about."

"Britney Spears went scorched earth and finally told all, and guys, it's heartbreaking."

"I just want my life back, and that's saying it minimally."

"Pray for me that I may not flee for fear of the wolves."

"What appeals to me about Spider-Man is that he really is just a guy under the mask constantly struggling to get by."

"You're a champ because you've been undergoing all of your treatments for your bladder cancer."

"Revisiting the interview, it's distressing to think of the pain she was concealing behind her smile."

"I want to ensure I am the last woman who contemplates dropping out because she has been assaulted."

"I'm sure you've experienced this as a priest and a spiritual director to hear people say oh I'm going through a dark night of this soul."

"They feel like you are the missing piece to their life."

"I'm fighting for her it could get really ugly because I'm not leaving here."

"The best way I can describe gender dysphoria is heartache, isolation, and perpetual loss of a life that you need."

"But fame was starting to burden the musician more and more."

"He's torn between his love for his father and doing what he feels is right."

"Yeah, your boy snapped, all right? It's just, like, dude, I'm not-- I'm not gonna go through this, alright? I had enough in my lifetime of being bullied where I'm not gonna relive-- relive this."

"I was suicidal, I thought nobody's ever going to love me ever again, I'm going to be alone the rest of my life, somebody that I gave my heart my life to just basically threw it out to the curb."

"I struggle with mental stuff too, it's not an easy fight."

"Kirk backs off and doesn't want his pain taken away, he needs his pain because that defines him."

"I dealt with depression. I abused alcohol. I had suicidal thoughts."

"Why can't I stay profiting in a sentence, Jesus? Why?"

"Rue is going to hit rock bottom or even lower."

"Recognizing the struggle that you've had, that fight or flight."

"It's the battle about you and your self-doubt."

"That to me was Spider-Man right there: just the pain, the struggle, the being afraid, the overcoming it. Absolutely wonderful."

"Louis slipped deeper into his depression while his wife became more motivated to action."

"I was worried how far my rock bottom was going to be."

"Yeah, I look like I'm going through it, 'cause I am."

"Bruce Banner and The Incredible Hulk have always had a strained relationship, to say the least."

"Bo Burnham is a troubled genius in every sense of the word."

"The biggest struggle in my life was with me."

"Experience joy... that's a lifelong struggle, but you have to work at it."

"Why am I still depressed? That's the whole name of the game."

"They're silently battling their own self-worth demons."

"A lot of Catholics are confused, hanging onto their faith by a thread."