Quotes About Endurance

Think about something cheerful, old man, he said. Every minute now you are closer to home.

Sometimes all niceness gone and glad to get out on the street but always another day starting and then another night.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

I want it to be rugged," Roger had said. "I'm going to start new again." "How many times is it now you've started new?" "Too many," Roger had said. "And you don't have to rub it in.

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish.

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

You dear, brave sweet.

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

must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad. After

A man is never lost at sea and it is a long island." It

But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures

But Jesus Christ, what do you do at nights is what I want to know. How do you get through nights if you can't sleep? I guess you find out like you find out how it feels to lose your husband. I guess you find out all right. I guess you find out everything in this goddamned life.

The world breaks everyone.

You'll not fish without eating while I'm alive.

La vela [...], recogida, parecía el estandarte de una eterna derrota.

Perhaps wars weren't won any more. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Santiago

Kui kergeks küll muutub süda, kui tead, et kõik on läbi, kui tead, et oled võidetud.

I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this, he said. Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now.

Nothing is ever lost no matter how it seems at the time and what is left out will always show and make the strength of what is left in.

world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he had just summoned, into the fish's side just behind the great chest fin that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man's chest. He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it.

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