Quotes About Endurance

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

The forms change, but the substance remains.

Një prej funksioneve më kryesore të një miku është (në një formë të butë e simbolike) të durojë ndëshkimet të cilat do të donim, por nuk kemi mundësi, t'ua japim armiqve tanë.

And as on Tullia's tomb one lamp burned clear, Unchanged for fifteen hundred year...' He repeated the lines to himself, and was desolated to think of all the murdered past.

Librarse de todo lo desagradable en lugar de aprender a soportarlo. Si es más noble soportar en el alma las pedradas o las flechas de la mala fortuna, o bien alzarse en armas contra un piélago de pesares y acabar con ellos enfrentándose a los mismos... Pero ustedes no hacen ni una cosa ni otra. Ni soportan ni resisten. Se limitan a abolir las pedradas y las flechas. Es demasiado fácil.

Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less and with nothing but his own inward resources to rely on) to some great trial, some pain, some persecution; he had even longed for affliction.

To the athlete, all things are forgiven

Confiar y esperar

Hubiérase dicho que un dolor supremo lo hacía superior a los temores ordinarios.

Y entiendo también que su casa somos nosotras, que si sigue ahí aguantando es porque cree que todavía no estamos enteras sin ella y que no se irá hasta dejarnos bien, hasta que que su casa esté bien vivida. Ordenada. Hasta que haya paz.

The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.

You're never really done for, as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to.

Signore Buon Dio abbiate pazienza son di nuovo io.

Anche se dovesse far male da morire, è vivere che voglio.

Non c'è più tempo per fuggire e forza per resistere

Sono qui perché se mi arrendo questa volta mi arrenderò tutta la vita.

Non c'é più tempo per fuggire e forza per resistere, doveva essere questo istante, e questo istante è, credimi, signore amato mio, quest'istante sarà, da adesso in poi, sara, fino alla fine.

Non è un problema di fatica, di paura della fatica, di rammollimento. Ve lo ripeto: per Monsieur Bertin quella fatica era un piacere. Aveva bisogno di sentirsi stanco, di quel tour de force lo rendeva grande, e sicuro di sé.

Good Heaven! That is enough to drive away all my pains; I could mount him with thirty balls in my body. On my soul, handsome stirrups!

In uncertainty there's still hope.

Wait and hope for!

your fortune looks like the pyramids. When someone would want to tear them, he wouldn't dare to, and when he dares to, he couldn't do it.

Special things have a way of surviving.