Quotes About Endurance

Mr. Strike Out!

That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might not end up with a mark on my cheek, I had no doubt that I would end up with a mark somewhere.

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending. Perversely, I will not give the happy ending. I think life is difficult and that's that.

A task like that would have killed a thoughtful person, but he went on to live a very long life.

Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.

What was it that Drask Silver Hand had said to him? Life is pain. Oh, how he lived just then.

Twenty-six thousand feet up the cols of Everest, a long way beyond the staying power of plants, pale spiders have been found, who subsist on nothing more discernible than air. Apparently they also reproduce their kind. What else they do with their time and, for that matter, why, no one has yet made out.

It's hell... Just hell. It's just plain hell... But you gotta go through with it.

Now I am more nearly a grown member of the human race..she thought she had never before had a chance to realize the strength human beings have, to endure;she loved and revered all those who had ever suffered, even those who had failed to endure

When grief and shock surpass endurance there occur phases of exhaustion, of anesthesia in which relatively little is left and one has the illusion of recognizing, and understanding, a good deal.

But then he remembered what George had told him about pain. You know what you can do, even if your body says quit. It's only pain. "It's only pain, he thought, hearing George's voice and seeing his eagle-face. If anyone would know, George would, he thought. And truly, he thought, it's the most useful one thing a body can know.

He remembered another one of his mother's saying. It was back when she'd birthed Fanny, her tenth. Someone had siad it was about time she gave up mothering and rested. "Nay," she had said. "I've started something, and now I wouldn't stop if I could, and I couldn't stop if I would.

By the power of faith every enduring work is accomplished.

The armored creatures wrestled one another, and when one seemed about to climb out of the basket and make its escape, the others would grab it and haul it back down into the endless battle.

Dead in Their Tracks by John Annerino

Kung sakaling malupit sa iyo ang kapalaran, alalahanin mo ako, dahil hindi mapapagod sa paghihintay itong walang sawang tumitingin sa iyo.

Each second is a raw drop of blood from your brain that you must swallow drop by drop and don't even start counting or you'll lose your mind...

Ein Verständiger nimmt alles wie es ist, behilft sich damit wie er kann und hält nichts Unvermeidliches für unerträglich.

You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn't that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that's why you would do it again. That has nothing to do with it. You can't measure it, because the pain comes after and it lasts longer. So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.

Eleven years—that is long. Long enough so that the roots of love, if the tree is robust, plunge so deep that they will subsist always, even dried up.

Just as it is hard for us, in our garden, to stop weeding, because there is always another weed there in front of us, it may be hard for her to stop grazing, because there are always a few more shoots of fresh grass just ahead of her.

I never thought anything I did was shocking. If you can't take it for 20 minutes, you try living' it for 20 or 40 years.

E besouro que cai de costas não se levanta nunca mais.

I am not afraid to trust myself, my friends, or the heathen in the hands of him whose mercy endureth forever.