Quotes About Endurance

It's a bore, he said out loud. What is, my dear? Anything you do too bloody long.

Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought.

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

He had been contemptuous of those who wrecked. You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care. All right. Now he would not care for death. One thing he had always dreaded was the pain. He could stand pain as well as any man, until it went on too long, and wore him out, but here he had something that had hurt frightfully and just when he had felt it breaking him, the pain had stopped.

And this,' he was saying aloud. 'And this. And this.

I went into the room and stayed with Catherine until she died. She was unconscious all the time, and it did not take her very long to die.

Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.

And pain does not matter to a man.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO It is necessary to be very strong against something

He lived in Udine and came out in this way nearly every day to see how things were going, and things went very badly.

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eight-four days now without taking a fish.

In life, one must (first) last. ("Dans la vie, il faut [d'abord] durer.")

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever.

A thousand years makes economics silly and a work of art endures for ever, but it is very difficult to do and now it is not fashionable.

But neither bull force nor bull courage lasted, she knew now, and what did last? I last, she thought. Yes, I have lasted. But for what?

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Pero el hombre no está hecho para la derrota —dijo—. Un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO I thought the pain alone would kill me

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

The thousand times he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.

You oughtn't to ever do anything too long.

And what did last? I last, she thought. Yes, i have lasted. But for what?

It is not bad," he said. "And pain does not matter to a man.