Quotes About Endurance

I was in so much pain that I couldn't imagine not feeling it

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

Fear comes, but fear passes.

Only infinite patience produces immediate results.

I said to myself, "Marianne. Next time you're down on your knees, why don't you just stay there?

Friedrich Nietzsche, "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Whatever doesn't kill you, it's gonna leave a scar

Doll always said, Just be quiet. Whatever it is, just wait for it to be over. Everything ends sometime.

The world don't want you as long as there is any life in you at all.

What could the old man say about all those people born with more courage than they could find a way to spend, and then there was nothing to do with it but just get by? And that was when the times were decent.

It seemed to me that what perished need not also be lost.

you have to do it till you're done

I just lay there, helplessly subject to my anxieties. A good many of them I could have put out of my mind, if I'd had the use of my mind. But as it was, I had to endure a kind of dull paralysis.

Les gens éprouvent une grande souffrance, et nous passons tous notre temps à essayer de la refouler. Et quand on refoule une souffrance émotionnelle assez longtemps elle se transforme en souffrance physique.

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

long race with death

el primer día que pudo ponerse de pie a los pocos pasos se desplomó al suelo, exhausto, en un estado de debilidad que no recordaba haber sentido antes.

El amor duraba poco basado en lo puramente físico. Con la desaparición de la novedad, con la rutina, la atracción sexual disminuía y al final moría (sobre todo en el hombre), y la pareja entonces sólo podía sobrevivir si había entre ellos otros imanes: espirituales, morales. Para esa clase de amor la edad no importaba.

Un tiro es un segundo. Eso es preferible a irse muriendo de a poquitos, de hambre, de frío, de soledad, de tristeza.

The Other side of the Story)The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.

Why put them through the danger of the fire? And then, I heard, as though it spoke, the voice of the guardian-head: Each piece must go through the fire. The cowl, the wings, the pneuma, the source, the flow. All must go the way that I have gone. Each may crack in the process, as I have cracked. But look, the crack has healed. I did not break. Without the fire, the piece is untested, unlived, raw. Each must go through the fire.

It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would.

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.