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Quotes About Endurance

she might never leave the road at all, but just hurry on and on until the wheels of the car were worn to nothing and she had come to the end of the world.
~ Shirley Jackson
Like they say—you get used to troubles.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Like the saying has it: keep living and you'll live to see it.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Like they say: a pimple on a blister, a blister on a boil.
~ Sholem Aleichem
The wise man blesses the whip that flogs him," says my mother.
~ Sholom Aleichem
In short, things are going from bad to worse. But if you want peace and quiet, my mother says, you should look for it in the grave …
~ Sholom Aleichem
But after the last straw, there's always more, as my mother says.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Sibella Giorello
~ And life hurts.
My ancestors survived famine and plagues and floods, and I'm going to survive this.
~ Sidney Sheldon
They had broken his legs, but he could crawl.
~ Sidney Sheldon
He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.
~ Sigmund Freud
And I will go on kissing you till you are strong and gay and happy — and if they haven't died, they are still alive today.
~ Sigmund Freud
Olgunluk, doyumu erteleyebilme kabiliyetidir.
~ Sigmund Freud
people have said that were it not for suicide they could not go on.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who were these people?
~ Sigrid Nunez
His heart sang in his breast; his soul felt like a bride in the arms of the bridegroom. He realized full well that this would not last. No man could live on earth in this manner for long. And he had received each hour of that bright springtime like a pledge—a merciful promise that would strengthen his endurance when the skies darkened over him and the road led down into a dark ravine, through roaring rivers and cold snowdrifts.
~ Sigrid Undset
Then it occurred to me that many of these people had suffered more than Christ himself. "I pondered this until I felt that my heart and mind would burst. But finally I received the light that I had prayed and begged for. And I realized that just as they had suffered, so should we all have the courage to suffer. Who would be so foolish not to accept pain and torment if this was the way to a faithful and steadfast bridegroom who waits with open arms, his breast bloody and burning with love.
~ Sigrid Undset
A man's heart is the first thing to quicken in his mother's womb, and the last to grow still in him. But in him now it sure must soon some to rest.
~ Sigrid Undset
There is an animal in all of us who knows how to survive.
~ Silas House
I waited for hours, until the day bloomed and eased itself over the sea.
~ Silas House
Horror can only be borne if one ceases to think of the individual identity of those involved;
~ Simon Brett
Los hombres eran endurecidos en Rabka para que no se derrumbaran tras unas pocas semanas de servicios y tenían que hacerse insensibles a la sangre, a los gritos de agonía de mujeres y niños, debiendo realizar el trabajo con el mínimo ruido y la máxima eficacia
~ Simon Wiesenthal
Sobrevivir era un trabajo que requería todas las horas del día
~ Simon Wiesenthal
Perfection is the child of time.—BISHOP JOSEPH HALL, WORKS
~ Simon Winchester