Quotes About Endurance

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

And that White Sustenance—Despair—

No Rack can torture me—My Soul—at Liberty—Behind this mortal BoneThere knits a bolder One—

And I never did.

To exert itself, the will, like the arm, requires to have an obvious and a definite resistance, to know where it is, why it is, whence it comes, and whither it goes.

Theodora never married. Love did not, however, kill her—at least, if it did, it was a long time at the task, as she survived these events more than sixty years. She never, seemingly, forgot the past.

You can turn me into dust but you can neither kill nor can suppress my ideology. Rather my ideology will spread with greater intense after my death.

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

My years have limped; but I Have tried so hard to fly! And now, suppose Death brings Gulls' wings At last, for me to keep?

One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found -- and it is found in terrible places.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

My springs is getting rusty, sleeping single like I do.

We had known each other for many years; starved together, worked together, loved each other, suffered each other, made love; and yet the most tremendous consummation of our love was occurring now, as she patiently, in love and terror, held my hand.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Other women bow their heads and suffer in silence. They go on living, mortally wounded but resigned, weeping often but with no desire to strike back against the person who has injured them, praying for him and cherishing their memories until their last breath. That is love, true love, the love the angels know ...

All human power is a compound of time and patience. Powerful beings will and wait.

There is often more pleasure in suffering than in happiness; look at the martyrs!

If someone could give me some sort of evidence that what we're doing here is really love, I'd be so tremendously relieved that I'd probably kneel down at that person's feet. And if it isn't love, if it's eventually going to end, I want to go on sleeping like this; I want to stop hearing the phone when he calls. Let me be alone again.

Con ng??i không khu?t ph?c dÆ°á»›i hoàn c?nh hay nh?ng th? lá»±c t? bên ngoài, mà s? thua cuá»™c b?t ??u t? chính bên trong

I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual despite of it...

Yet at all costs I had to keep my hands and body and mind moving. Doing that, I hoped, albeit listlessly, would somehow, someday, lead to a breakthrough. There was no guarantee, but I would try to endure, no matter what, until it came.

Aunque seamos derrotados como gusanos, hacemos la comida, comemos y dormimos. Todas las personas que amamos mueren una tras otra. Y, a pesar de ello, tenemos que seguir viviendo.

Without a prospect in sight, day after day went by, like losing one's mind bit by bit. I would repeat to myself, like a prayer: It's all right, it's all right, the day will come when you'll pull out of this.

Pensé desde el fondo de mi corazón: «Las personas no se dejan vencer por las circunstancias o por fuerzas que vienen de fuera, sino por las que nacen en el interior de sí mismos». Precisamente, ante mis ojos estaba a punto de acabar algo de lo que no deseaba su fin. Pero no podía impacientarme o entristecerme. Sólo había una oscuridad sombría.