Quotes About Endurance

The end of the world has come often, and continues to often come. Unforgiving, unrelenting, bringing darkness upon darkness, the end of the world is something we have become well acquainted with, habitualized, made into a ritual. It is our religion to try to forget it in its absence, make peace with it when it is undeniable, and return its embrace when it finally comes for us, as it always does.

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

Tomorrow was over the horizon and it would take an entire day to reach

there are only so many times that you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy walls.

I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship. 

by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

Even drought bears fruit. Even death is a seed.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

Suffering doesn't teach you about yourself from a textbook—it teaches you from experience. It empties you so that by faith you can be filled with His Spirit.

Like a black, velvety cloth set against diamonds, your disability provides a remarkable backdrop that magnifies patience, perseverance, endurance, and an uncomplaining spirit. These Christlike qualities that God longs to cultivate in your life are amplified against your obvious hardships. Your chronic condition is, no doubt, obvious to others—but what God wants to make obvious to others is your perseverance and lack of complaint.

Be patient. Don't give up. This life's not over yet. It will get better. One day you will enjoy the most perfect final exit.

Estoy harta del tiempo, dijo, lo que trae se lo lleva sin misericordia. Trae el amor, lo gasta y se lo lleva. Se lleva la memoria, los recuerdos, se va con tus fuerzas. También trae el dolor y, si se aguanta, queda una herida con la que toca vivir hasta que el maldito tiempo decida llevárselo a uno. Y no por las buenas, sino que nos deja alguna enfermedad para que conozcamos la eternidad antes de irnos.

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.

Sólo persisten en el tiempo las cosas que no fueron del tiempo.

Ölümü sab?rs?zl?kla bekleyerek ama hiç s?zlanmadan öldü.

I tada, kao i danas, svet beše surov; samo su ga sr?ani mogli proputovati, ali i bednici, koji se na sve priviknu.

I kept getting close to happiness and have stood in the shadow of suffering.

Sólo perduran en el tiempo las cosas Que no fueron del tiempo.

Work that endures is always capable of an infinite and plastic ambiguity; it is all things for all men, like the Apostle; it is a mirror that reflects the reader's own features and it is also a map of the world. Moreover, all this must come about in an evanescent and modest way, almost in spite of the author, who must appear to be ignorant of any and all symbolism.

A classic book is a book which generations of men, driven by various reasons, read with that same initial fervor and that same mysterious loyalty.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.