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Quotes About Endurance

Then there was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one's parents giving it into one's hands, this life, to be lived to the end, to be walked with serenely;
~ Virginia Woolf
This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Tears and sorrows; courage and endurance; a perfectly upright and stoical bearing.
~ Virginia Woolf
Cum de inima mea poate - cum mai poate, cum mai poate, repet?, puf?ind din havan?. Tânjind în singur?tate, chinul vieÈ›ii s?-l îndure?
~ Virginia Woolf
You have no one who has any sort of consideration for you. You have had patience and endurance till I am sick of the virtues, and what have they done for you? Half-killed you.
~ Virginia Woolf
Forgetfulness in people might wound, their ingratitude corrode, but this voice, pouring endlessly, year in year out, would take whatever it might be; this vow; this van; this life; this procession, would wrap them all about and carry them on, as in the rough stream of a glacier the ice holds a splinter of bone, a blue petal, some oak trees, and rolls them on.
~ Virginia Woolf
She would die like some bird in a frost gripping her perch.
~ Virginia Woolf
The soul must brave itself to endure.
~ Virginia Woolf
there was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one's parents giving it into one's hands, this life, to be lived to the end, to be walked with serenely; there was in the depths of her heart an awful fear.
~ Virginia Woolf
Mesmo assim, o sol era quente. Mesmo assim, a gente superava as coisas. Mesmo assim, a vida arranjava um jeito de somar um dia ao outro.
~ Virginia Woolf
Then (she had felt it only this morning) there was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one's parents giving it into one's hands, this life, to be lived to the end, to be walked with serenely; there was in the depths of her heart an awful fear.
~ Virginia Woolf
This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Tears and sorrows; courage and endurance; a perfectly upright and stoical bearing.
~ Virginia Woolf
Vendrá si trabajamos por ella, y que vale la pena trabajar hasta en la oscuridad y en la pobreza.
~ Virginia Woolf
Years of secret suffering had taught me superhuman self-control.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I am an actor, living generally on air, but I have always elastic hopes for the future; they may be stretched indefinitely, such hopes, without bursting
~ Vladimir Nabokov
You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I want you to know that no matter how much you hurt me, you cannot hurt my love, and this sentence (if we re-English it from the Zemblan) came out as: I desire you and love when you flog me.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Finally it gave up- as some day life will give up- bothering me.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
~ W.C. Fields
I learnt that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it, even if in the beginning you think you can't do it at all. 
~ Langston Hughes
Cora was like a tree—once rooted, she stood, in spite of storms and strife, wind, and rocks, in the earth.
~ Langston Hughes
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom whem I'm dead.
~ Langston Hughes
Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry— I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die. Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!
~ Langston Hughes
I learnt that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it, even if in the beginning you think you can't do it at all.
~ Langston Hughes
Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
~ Langston Hughes