Quotes About Endurance

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

Hard labor and the passing of the years had contorted and hardened his limbs to queer, crooked shapes, but he gave no impression of deformity, as Nat did. So of the earth was he that he looked more like a tree than a man, one of those tough old pine trees that nothing in the way of weather except a thunderbolt will ever get the better of.

Such a blow breaks a weak woman, twists a strong one.

Love. The only indestructible thing. The only wealth and the only reality. The only survival. At the end of it all there was nothing else

she loved him now as she had loved him at the beginning. To

You'd have to be so careful, more careful than we can even imagine, to keep that one spark alive. Because that's what kept you alive, in the cold and the dark.

I'm dealing with nothing too. It goes on and on.

You stay loyal to what increasingly disappoints you. It happens all the time.

Listen to the beat. Play the sound of his voice over and over again in your mind. You try to turn down the volume but baby this speaker has no controls. Just close your eyes. Listen to the last notes of this solemn memory. Live honey, can't forget, but you gotta live cause you gotta prove them all wrong about you, gotta show'um you won't be the one to slip between the earthquake lines forming in this dry dirt...

Shh," he whispered. "You asked me if I loved you. I do. I love you more than life itself. Nothing matters in this world but that you live. Can you do that for me? Can you live?

Du musst einfach dranbleiben,' sagte er. 'Es sollte kein Zeitvertreib sein und keine Pflicht und nichts Ungewöhnliches. Es sollte das Normalste auf der Welt für dich sein.

everything sustaining would last.

Creep, clobber, squawk. Repeat.

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?

Don't run away from your troubles, because they'll sure as hell run faster.

He says marriage is a continuous inevitable confrontation that can be resolved only through death.

She had a lot of practice standing things because she had to stand them, which was a hard habit to break.

You see, the work of maintaining your life with your own skills was never counted in hours. The days were long and arduous, but there was no wishing them to go by.

See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

What was wrong with her? Why did things like this keep happening to her? Love wasn't supposed to hurt, yet it felt like all she knew when it came to love was pain. Every time she opened her heart, she just got burned. Or, in this case, frozen. And she was getting sick and tired of it.

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating

I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.