Quotes About Endurance

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comforted him. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

Love must wait; it must break one's bones.

There are men who seem to have seized the trunk of life, and he was one of them. It might not be for everyone, the great, scarring thing you could not get your arms around, but it was there for him.

We think of Rome as an empire in a way that we do not use for other nations. The others are pretenders. Rome stands alone. Throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Near East its wreckage still draws the traveler and speaks a message that is haunting: this was imperial, this was lasting, this is gone.

anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun.

Er komt een tijd dat je alleen bent, schreef Céline lang voordat het hem echt overkwam, als je aan het eind bent gekomen van alles wat je overkomen kan. Het is het einde van de wereld, zelfs verdriet, je eigen verdriet, geeft geen antwoord meer en je moet op je schreden terugkeren, je weer onder de mensen begeven, het maakt niet uit wie.

Winston Churchill: "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

My working definition of a successful novel is this: the emotionally satisfying account of how a character deals with imminent death. Once

Fionn went [...] to carve a name for himself that will live while Time has an ear and knows an Irishman

Whoever Fights Monsters

you can lose every round of a fight, just don't lose the last one.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Books can be burned," croaked Black. "They have a way of rising from the ashes," said Andreus.

On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects.

Patience is the key which solves all problems. ~ Sudanese Proverb

However long or dark the night is, the dawn will always break. ~ African Proverb

Better than a sharp stick in the eye.

I grow weary of barely surviving," Ivy said.

You'd have to trust in Hope," said Fern. "Is that it?" No," Ragginbone replied shortly. "Hope needs something tangible to sustain it. You would have to rely on Faith. Only Faith can endure in the teeth of the evidence.

A man lives his life only when he is marching, i thought, when he keeps marching onwards at any price. When he stops marching onwards, he decays. The joy of life is the joy of the experience that comes from feeling one's own strength.

62: For G alone my soul waits in silence. He's running late, but my soul waits in silence. This is me, being silent. Out loud.

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.