Quotes About Endurance

Eliza, stop crying, You let sorrow take over you; you will drown in it

Ten years I toiled for that man without reward. Ten years of my incessant labor has contributed to increase the bulk of his possessions. Ten years I was compelled to address him with downcast eyes and uncovered head—in the attitude and language of a slave. I am indebted to him for nothing, save undeserved abuse and stripes.

They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees, with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come—it will come, if his prayer is heard—a terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.

Harmony will prevail. After darkness, there will be light. The light cannot come without the darkness. Better days are bound to come now.

It won't be forever. You'll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you'll come out.

Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.

It won't be forever. You'll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you'll come out...My aunt grows special rhubarb in dark sheds. They keep it dark and warm all winter and harvest it by candlelight and it's the best stuff...If rhubarb needs time in the dark maybe you do too.

true love isent true unless it lasts forever

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live.

Tell me the news, again, whatever it is... sorrow and I are hardly strangers. I can bear the worst.

Despite so many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Closer, it's all right. Touch the man of grief. Do. Don't be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.

Comply, and fear not, for my load of woe Is incommunicable to all but me.

Good news. I tell you even the hardest things to bear, if they should turn out well, all would be well.

Invited, not inflicted; of all wounds, those that seem willful are the worst to bear.

Oh but this I know: no sickness can destroy me

Never bring them down to the level of my pains.

When the Greek mercenaries of Xenophon's Anabasis, after months of marching and fighting in the mountains of Turkey, finally reached the Black Sea, one of them said, thankfully, "Now I can go home like Odysseus, flat on my back.

No man will ever be rooted from the earth as brutally as you.

Acceptance—that is the great lesson suffering teaches

A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain.

Acceptance—that is the great lesson suffering teaches, suffering and the long years . . .