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Quotes About Endurance

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
~ Vittorio Conte Alfieri
Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.
~ Enzo Ferrari
That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.
~ Tupac Shakur
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
~ Tennessee Williams
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
~ Roland Barthes
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
~ William Styron
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
~ Sigmund Freud
Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die.
~ Vavasor Powell
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
~ Hermann Hesse
Death alone will put a stop to my effort!
~ David Livingstone
Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
~ Winston Churchill
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
~ Walt Whitman
Even in the grave, all is not lost.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.
~ William Ernest Henley
Compatible comes from the Latin "compati", meaning "to suffer with". If you are not willing to suffer with someone until death do you part, then you are not compatible.
~ Jason Evert
When you stop fighting, that's death.
~ John Wayne
Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.
~ Ron Howard
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.
~ Aya Kito
Death's vigilance is eternal, so shall mine be.
~ Dana Gould
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
~ John Dryden
On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.
~ Soseki Natsume