Strife Quotes

Multiplicity without strife is joy.

Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

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.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.

Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

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.

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

God helps him who strives hard.

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

Waight and measure take away strife.

O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.

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

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale

I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to weave dreams. I suppose I may be allowed to choose the material.

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

God's word is : He who strives never perishes.

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby.

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

There is no advance without strife.

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

Rest is sweet after strife.

No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.