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Quotes About Endurance

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!
~ Emily Dickinson
To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.
~ Kristin Cast, Hunted
Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.
~ Frederick Lenz
We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
~ John Osborne
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
~ Thomas Browne
The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.
~ Yiyun Li
The Will to Death is what keeps me alive
~ John Frusciante
I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March
~ Tom Berenger
Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.
~ Unknown
The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.
~ Mary Catherwood
Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.
~ Francis Beaumont
Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.
~ Robinson Jeffers
Kill us today or you'll have to kill us tomorrow.
~ Ja Rule
Death is no different whined at than withstood.
~ Philip Larkin
There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.
~ Gabriel Macht
Not all of me shall die.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
~ Khaled Hosseini
In death, hope is everlasting.
~ Unknown
I shall not altogether die.
~ Horace
We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.
~ Cynthia Ozick
The monster nevers dies.
~ Stephen King, Cujo