logo

Quotes About Perseverance

Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.
~ Elliott Smith
Beat it to death if it succeeds.
~ Ernie Kovacs
You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it.
~ Frederick Lenz
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
~ George Santayana
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Surviving is much more painful than death.
~ Tom Clancy
It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.
~ Tonya Hurley
To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death.
~ Unknown
Death cannot kill that which does not die.
~ William Penn
La tristesse durera toujours.]
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
~ Langston Hughes
Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
~ Oscar Wilde
Believe in me and you shall die, forever.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.
~ Unknown
We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?""Perfect timing.
~ J.D. Robb, Glory in Death
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
~ Mary Harris Jones
For me, I will live so long as I can, however beaten, however maimed. I will do good to those who love me, and harm to those I hate, so long as my lungs draw breath.
~ Unknown
Death is easy when you've already tried to find it.
~ Pierce Brown, Red Rising
Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.
~ Toni Morrison, Beloved
I forgive you, " I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
~ Alice Sebold, Lucky
So, " he asked. "How's death?""Hard, " she said. "It just keeps going.
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.
~ Meriwether Lewis
Never underestimate the will of a creature who begins to die at birth.
~ Unknown
Killing is easy, " said Mo, "Dying is harder...
~ Cornelia Funke