Quotes About Endurance

Because you've survived, there is a next strategy.

There are no victims, now. While we survive, for as long as we love, our future is yet to be written.

Zo is het gegaan met de Indiaanse bevolking van San Nicolas-eiland, voor de kust van Los Angeles, die uiteindelijk werd gereduceerd tot één enkele vrouw die in volstrekte afzondering nog 18 jaar leefde.[...] Brachten de laatste inwoners van Henderson veel tijd door op het strand, generatie na generatie starend over zee in hoop de kano's te zien die nooit meer kwamen, totdat zelfs de herinnering aan hoe een kano eruitzag was vervaagd?

If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad —

If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out. And the journey starts NOW.

Strive for the Long Now

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. I would give everything to ensure the novel's survival.

death was just a natural part of the cycle of renewal, and that life should be seen not as a two-hundred-hard hurdle with a tape to reach before anyone else, but more like a relay race without end, and only one team.

los hombres no piden perdón: hacen lo que hacen y dicen lo que dicen, y luego se aguantan.

through gritted teeth, "is to look through

They also serve who only sit and wait

Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest.

Le géant, qui souffrait, blessé, De mille morts, de mille peines, Eut un sourire triste et beau ; Et, avant de mourir, regardant le roseau, Lui dit : « Je suis encore un chêne. »

His work kept on living, like the watches on the wrists of dead soldiers. [Said of Marcel Proust]

Patience and time do more than force and rage.

It probably wouldn't last. It never does. But it would come back around again. That's how life works. And that's why it's important to treasure the peaceful times-so you can persevere through the other kind.

You need no call, you were born to this destiny. But you will be tested. You will cause pain and suffer for it Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Time is our friend in trouble," she said, "because it tells us that the sorrow cannot last for ever.

J'ai cru que votre amour allait finir son cours. Je connais mon erreur, et vous aimez toujours.

I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you

Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....

After all this, what happened? What happened was that, as soon as I had the slightest chance of a place to hide in, I crept into it and hid. Well, sometimes it's a fine day isn't it? Sometimes the skies are blue. Sometimes the air is light, easy to breathe. And there is always tomorrow...

I'd planned to die at thirty, and then I'd push it on ten years, forty, and then fifty, You always push it on. And then you go on and on and on. It's difficult. Too much trouble. I've thought about death a great deal. One day in the snow I felt so tired. I thought, 'Damn it, I'll sit down. I can't go on. I'm tired of living here in the snow and ice.' So I sat down on the ground. But it was so cold I got up. Oh yes, I used to try to imagine death, but I always come up against a wall.

Say die and I will die. Say die and watch me die.