Quotes About Endurance

Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the sun is enough to make me suffer, how then should I not suffer in the darkness of the endlessly overcast sky of my own life?

It could have been any number of things: hardship, grief or simply the suffering born of the indifference that comes from having suffered too much.

Whole months have passed during which I haven't lived, but have merely endured, caught between the office and physiology, marooned in an inner stagnation of thinking and feeling. Alas, this is not a restful state to be in, for putrefaction inevitably involves fermentation.

It all comes down to trying to experience tedium in a way that does not hurt.

It seemed to suggest various kinds: hardships, anxieties, and the suffering born of the indifference that comes from having already suffered a lot.

How little hope ever attains! – Fernando Pessoa, from "The Scaffold," A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics, 2006)

Nunca chegar implica não chegar nunca

Tudo se me tornou insuportável, exceto a vida

I begin because I don't have the strength to think; I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.

To move is to live, to express oneself is to endure.

Vicente Guedes endured his empty life with masterly indifference, the foundations of his mental attitude being built on the stoicism of the weak.

Like happiness, the day was taking a long time to arrive, and at that hour, it felt as if it never would.

I'll die as I've lived, amid all the junk on the outskirts, sold by weight among the postscripts of the broken.

In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese

It will all be okay in the end, and if its not, then its not the end.

Everything will be alright in the end, and if it's not alright, it's not yet the end!

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end.

Una cosa es el heroísmo y otra cosa el suicidio por inanición

Pero el sufrimiento pasa. Si la vida, que es todo, pasa, por qué no han de pasar el amor y el dolor y todas las demás cosas, que no son más que partes de la vida.

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Dermot Trellis'in akli melekeleri geldiÄŸinde aral?klarla teker teker geldiler, öyle hep birden deÄŸil. Hepsi kendi ?st?raplar?yla geldiler ve sanki her an kalk?p gideceklermiÅŸ gibi akl?n s?n?r?nda endiÅŸeyle durdular.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

Give me the courage to stand the pain to get the grace.