Quotes About Endurance

Time finally did bring relief. But it took its own, and not terribly sweet, time in doing so.

It isn't ever delicate to live.

A thing cannot be delivered enough times: this is the rule of dogs for whom there are no fool's errands. To loop out and come back is good all alone. It's gravy to carry a ball or a bone.

Hope,' he said. 'Damn thing never leaves you alone.

Abiding love that has endured the years—that we see only rarely. When we do, we're only too glad to ferry the couple together.

when travellers speak of their most cherished memories, it's impossible for them to disguise the truth. A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more. Abiding love that has endured the years – that we see only rarely.

Our life together's like a tale with a happy end, no matter what turns it took in the way.

A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more. Abiding love that has endured the years—that we see only rarely.

A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did.

With a strength I can be proud of, I live only for myself, and only die for myself. I'll never die for someone, cause I know the pain of who remains alive, this is my pride.

Sunt un laÈ™, nu pot îndura suferinÈ›a de a fi fericit.

How long could we do this before you started bitching? Simon said as we turned down another street of apartment buildings. What? We've been walking for two days now, and you haven't complained once. It's damned annoying, you know. I looked at him. If you don't complain, then I can't complain. Not without sounding like a whiny little snot.

There'd been months when hunger seemed to be the driving force in his life.

I said the same words he'd said to me before he'd let go. "It's okay." A twisted smile. "No, not really. But it'll be okay soon. Or as close as it can get.

Plenty of dead vegetation had blown in and dried out, and Daniel managed to knock rocks together, get a spark, and light a tiny blaze. Considering I'd escaped a raging forest fire earlier that day, I was good with tiny.

Prior to 1830, the majority of ecclesiastical history and the Church fathers saw the Church enduring unto the end as an overcoming, glorious people. All that changed with the revelation of a 15-year-old girl not baptized with the Holy Ghost, not covered by a local church, and perhaps delirious with fever!

There's only so much a woman can endure in a single day without a bracing bout of giggles.

it's life... In all its granite hardness.

You'd test the patience of a saint.

I may yet go through anguish in hell for my sin. But if I had to live that time again I would do the same, to end Margery's ordeal. I preferred to suffer myself than to know that her agony continued. Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.

Solo te pido una cosa —insistió—, no puedes perder la esperanza.

Puedo hacer frente a cualquier cosa siempre que te tenga a mi lado.

People were born and died, cities could rise and fall, wars began and ended, but Kingsbridge Cathedral would last until the Day of Judgement.

The Cathedral Builders by Jean Gimpel.