Luis Bunuel Quotes

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

I think there can always be beauty in struggle.

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

Nothing comes easily for me.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

I like struggle.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

There is no success without hardship.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.