Quotes About Endurance

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.

Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.

Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Awareness signs the warrant for suffering.

And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion.

Raging against the dying of the light - used in The Book of Peach

final direction of the elementary town I advance for as long as forever is.

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night, Rage Against the Dying of the Light

O for the night that was ending, for the sleep and the wakefulness, the toughness and tenderness mixed, the sweet temper, the safety in darkness. Would such a night ever return?

Helen says it alone endures while men and houses perish, and that in the end the world will be a desert of chairs and sofas--just imagine it!--rolling through infinity with no one to sit upon them

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. I endure.