Quotes About Endurance

Les personnes qui m'ont adoré (...) se sont obstinées à vivre bien au-delà du terme de mon amour pour elles ou de leur amour pour moi.

If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, an so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal.

We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

And now I have finished the work, which neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.

Thence are we a hardy generation, and able to endure fatigue, and we give proofs from what original we are sprung.

And now, as she died for the second time, she never complained that her husband had failed her - what could she complain of, except that he'd loved her?

All things do change; but nothing sure doth perish.

Wij mensen zijn dan ook gehard en tehen veel bestand, een wezenlijk bewijs van dat waaruit wij zijn geschapen.

Quid vos perdiderit, dicam? nescistis amare: Defuit ars vobis; arte perennat amor. ?? ??? ???????? ?? ????? ??????: ????????? ????????? - ?????? ????????? ????? ???? ???????? ????.

If any one loves an object which he delights to love, enraptured, in his happiness, let him rejoice, and let him sail with prospering gales. But if any one impatiently endures the sway of some cruel fair, that he may not be undone, let him experience relief from my skill

Loving him didn't fix anything. Loving him didn't change anything. Loving him simply made everything else bearable.

Well, this should certainly teach us, should it not, never to repine, never to despair, never to allow the upper lip to unstiffen, but always to remember that, no matter how dark the skies may be, the sun is shining somewhere and will eventually come smiling through.

But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don't want to do.

Remember that I will be here', he said resolutely. 'For an eternity (...). I would wait for you for an eternity.

it's hard to march purposefully, or in any other way, when your thighs are screaming like Richard Simmons in a candy store- good God, stop the madness.

How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?" His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. "You'll see her again. She's with Nyx now. She'll either wait for you in the Goddess's meadow, or she'll be reborn and her soul will find you again during this lifetime. You can bear it because you know that spirit never really ends-we never really end.

Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

I was in that painful condition which occurs when one has lost one's first wind and has not yet got one's second.

We Woosters can bite the bullet.

Blandings Castle is not for the weak.

The last few minutes of waiting in a cupboard are always the hardest.