Quotes About Endurance

I don't need a day pass, I have the camp, and the camp has me. All I need is a bunk and Fenya's bread and my tin bowl. I don't even need Leo Auberg.

I wanted to work out a trade with things that aren't alive but aren't dead either. I wanted to make an emergency exchange, trading my body for the horizon line above and the dusty roads on the earth below. I wanted to borrow their endurance, exist without my body, and when the worst was over, slip back into my body and reappear in my fufaika. This had nothing to do with dying, quite the opposite.

He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

Sometimes you can't fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast.

Dripping water pierces a stone.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. —William Butler Yeats

What can you do but, as Cicero says, live hopefully, die bravely?

He is tired out from the effort of deciphering the world. Tired from the effort of smiling at the foe.

You are only young once, they say, but doesn't go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

By the blood of creeping Christ, stand on your feet." Creeping Christ? he thinks. What does he mean?

The dead are more faithful than the living. For better or worse, they do not leave you. They last out the longest night.

You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

Our possessions outlast us, surviving shocks we cannot; we have to live up to them, as they will be our witnesses when we are gone.

He feels he is in the torture chamber but he knows that one day he will find the door out, because it is he who has the key.

If he were to counsel Anna, it would be to patience. The dowager Katherine won the admiration of all, when she sat smiling by the king she supposed her husband, through hours of court ceremonies, hours which stretched into years. Never was she seen with tears on her cheeks, or an angry frown.

Why are we so attached to the severities of the past?Why are we so proud of ourselves for having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.

Try to work on the scale of eternity. Do you see? Otherwise you will be fettered by trivia. The daily frustrations will cripple you.

istoria nu este trecutul, ci ceea ce r?mâne în ciur dup? ce veacurile au trecut prin el

She is never put down for long. That's why men like her. There will be other times, other men, others manners.

You can grow up, not what you would call a person of iron conviction; but you think there are things about you that won't change, beliefs you will always hold, things happening that will go on happening: a world that will do you for as long as you need it. Don't be deceived.

Hope dies all the time. And yet we need to believe it will come back and attach itself to a new cause - a new love, a new house, something that gives us a sense of purpose, which is ultimately what hope is.

Life is brief, art is long.