Quotes About Endurance

Some people are made stronger by loss. Others are broken by it.

You can sink a thing deep, weight it down with stones, but eventually, it will surface.

This is what I know about loss. It doesn't get better. You just get (somewhat) used to it.

I run until time stops. Until my mind stops.

Sometimes in the darkest places, we find the brightest light.

I was alive. I burned brightly. And then I died, but not really. Because someone like me cannot, will not, die like everyone else. I linger like the legends of the Blue Hole. I will always be here, in the offerings and people I left behind.

The bad news: surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: the worst is already over.

The only way around it is to stay with one guy forever." But does forever have a built-in ending...?

Why do some love stories have a shelf life and others last forever?

But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?

The great Anna Faris once said that the secret of surviving high school is to "lay low.

That's how she used to feel before any of this happened – strong and sturdy, like she could withstand a tornado.

Things become very simple when you have no choice, when there's nothing left for you but to endure as long as you can, and survive if you can.

The Sierra Madre was like the sea, he thought. Both of them deathless, monotonously eternal, and so indifferent in their magnitude that either could accept the dust of all the world's dead and not have the decency to show it in posture.

What you'll have to do now is ride the rap, as they say. It's all anybody has to do.

Laurel for you—can you stay on?

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself.

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had baked his skin until it had the colour and toughness and stillness of a tree. With advancing years, he had lost his tongue. He now never spoke, considering such an activity pointless.

Ne dis pas ces choses, répétait-elle, car je n'aurais plus la force de te quitter, je resterais là... Donne moi du courage plutôt; dis-moi que nous nous verrons encore...

On cause de son mal, on ne se coupe pas le cÅ"ur en quatre tout d'un coup, on s'habitue à la séparation, enfin !

Et il est capable de s'écraser le cÅ"ur comme on écrase une puce.