Quotes About Endurance

Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who is cold and starving is so busy in his efforts to obtain warmth and food that he has little time for self-pity, and endures his unhappy condition better than those who take it upon themselves to suffer for him.

And you take any consequences on the chin. You shoulder them because you know nothing can make you buckle. What people don't realize is that discomfort is temporary.

Because no matter how low you go and how lost you feel, there is always tomorrow. And tomorrow just may be the day when you get lifted up and find your way.

consoling himself with the thought that one day

Things are bad and crazy and chaotic. But you ride it out and you don't let it hurt you, and then there's this stretch of time that is so calm and perfect. And that's what was always worth waiting for.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).

Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that's all she can do. That and hope.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.

Zindagi migzara (life goes on)

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.

Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person has to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up into the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke silently on the people below - As a reminder of how women like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

They would make new lives for themselves—peaceful, solitary lives—and there the weight of all that they'd endured would lift from them, and they would be deserving of all the happiness and simple prosperity they would find.

How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

Bareh tu hazar dafa!

Zendagi migzara, we say, life goes on.

Por ti lo haria mil veces mas

Time is the most unforgiving of fires.