Quotes About Endurance

Românii au tr?it o mie de ani ca plantele.

Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

Everything that can be classified is perishable. Only what is susceptible to several interpretations endures.

German endurance knows no limits — even in madness: Nietzsche endured his eleven years, Hölderlin forty.

A foretold misfortune, when at last it occurs, is ten, is a hundred times harder to endure than one we did not expect. All during our apprehensions, we lived through it in advance, and when it happens these past torments are added to the present ones, and together they form a mass whose weight is intolerable.

The not at all negligible advantage of having greatly hated men is that one comes to endure them by the exhaustion of this very hatred.

However disabused one may be, it is impossible to live without any hope at all. We always keep one, unwittingly, and this unconscious hope makes up for all the explicit others we have rejected, exhausted.

After the Spanish publication of the 'Précis,' two Andalusian students asked me if it was possible to live without "fundamentación." I answered that it was true that I had found no solid basis anywhere and that I had nonetheless managed to endure, for with the years one got used to everything, even vertigo. Then, too, one does not constantly keep watch and interrogate oneself, absolute lucidity being incompatible with breathing.

If I have been able to hold out till now, it is because each blow, which seemed intolerable at the time, was followed by a second which was worse

After the Spanish publication of the 'Précis,' two Andalusian students asked me if it was possible to live without 'fundamentación.' I answered that it was true that I had found no solid basis anywhere and that I had nonetheless managed to endure, for with the years one got used to everything, even vertigo. Then, too, one does not constantly keep watch and interrogate oneself, absolute lucidity being incompatible with breathing.

When I despise myself, I tell myself, in order to shore up my confidence, that, after all, I have managed to maintain myself in being or in a semblance of being, with a perception of things that very few could have endured.

This situation will last until the end of time. And it is to this situation that they owe the mishap of not perishing . . .

How I'd like to be a plant, even If I had to keep vigil over a piece of shit

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.

This is your pain,' she said. 'You must bear witness.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

Yes, as my swift days near their goal,'Tis all that I implore:In life and death a chainless soul,With courage to endure.