Quotes About Endurance

I only thought Of lying quiet there where I was thrown Like sea-weed on the rocks, and suffer her To prick me to a pattern with her pin, Fibre from fibre, delicate leaf from leaf, And dry out from my drowned anatomy The last sea-salt left in me.

If you have to die [...] better to go down fighting. Better to die in company. Better not be the last, and alone, weighed down with all that knowing.

You'd never break this one. You'd never even bend her. She'd die like Joan of Arc first, and spit blood on you through a smile.

What cannot be cured must be endured, and Tristen excelled at enduring.

Kit bit his cheek on tired laughter, all his irritation draining away. Perhaps I've just been used too much to care any more, he thought.

Life is tenacious. Even on the brink of death, it holds the battlements and snarls.

You know what you've lost, sometimes, and there's no point in talking about it. You turn around and look at the ruins, and then you either sink down by the roadside and cry or you pick up your pack and lump on.

He has outlived two Ragnaroks and a far more human apocalypse. It is time to tear down, shed the husk, leave behind a dead world to see a new world reborn.

Fighting the snare only deepens the wound. One must lie in wait, hoarding strength until the hunter returns.

They stripped him only to the waist, and left his feet free when they bound him standing between two pillars, and not helplessly prone on some clammy altar.

For Leah. Yes. Because for her, I would crawl through fire.

Swing hard; follow through to the other side of whatever you are swinging at. Zanya Farweather had been swinging at my soul.

Even when the world ends, you still have to get up and plow the next morning.

He did not think he'd ever seen her lie down to rest, or even claim a need for it.

He turned his head to press his face to the cold glass of the portal, a gesture Richard saw a lot among his pilots. His pilots. With their hair-trigger reflexes and enhanced senses that made the simplest navigation through daily life an act of courage and endurance. His pilots. Richard's pilots. Richard's ticket to the stars.

Apparently Farweather was going to keep talking no matter what.

The cold could kill me, but it's no worse than the memories. Endurable as long as I keep moving.

We can bite down on a grudge and grin around it until the end of time.

His bones ached of a morning, winter and summer, these days; it was only a matter of degree.

The best she could do: waelcyrge did not die unless until they grew tarnished.

Pinion folded around her, cushioned her fall, so the impacts of shattering branches that would have also shattered her bones only knocked the wind out of her.

David had his reasons to be angry. But after a century or two, one did grow tired. Mortal lifetimes were a mercy to love, Sebastien thought. It could endure that long.

You changed; you adapted; you made the most of what you were and strove to become more. He would survive.

We can endure this. We endure. We live. We cooperate if we must. And then we find our vengeance.