Quotes About Endurance

What makes one heroic?— Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

If someone rejoices while burning at the stake it is not because he has triumphed over his pain, but rather over not feeling any pain when he expected to.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger." ? Friedrich Nietzsche

It is precisely he who is becoming who cannot endure the state of becoming.

IF there were gods, how could I endure it to be no God!

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so sensitive! We are all of us pretty sturdy asses and she-asses.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absenc of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right time to act, for the right priciples and in the right way

It takes eternity to make a man despair.

We grow weary, of course, but God is unwearied in giving us new strength.

The crosses from the outside are bearable; the double-crosses inside are insoluble

There is no door through which tears do not pass.

As Euripides said: "He is not a lover who does not love forever.

The Divine Savior never said to His Apostles: "Be good and you will not suffer" but He did say: "In this world you shall have tribulation.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he stood at the railing of the ship... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy vicitim to the charitible deceptions of nostalgia.

It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

I don't run for my physical health, though that's a lucky side effect. I run because I'm tortured inside. I run to soothe the violence in my mind, the depression, the panic, the disappointments, the shame, the frustration, the helplessness against time. You could say I'm running from something... though I'd rather think I'm running TOWARD something. Though I'm probably running just to stay in one place. It seems like most of life is just maintenance, after all.

I love you now... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.

Gail Carson Levine

How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence. - Ella Baker

People commit thousands of small suicides every day that go unnoticed

I've worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.