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Quotes About Endurance

All the great pillars of my life are crumbling. I must constantly remind myself that I am not the only grieving person in the world. And yet, the loss of Reba is a terrible cross to bear and I do not think I have the strength for it.
~ Douglas Preston
I feel like I'm rolling a ball of shit up an endless mountain." "My dear Vincent, Sisyphus would be proud.
~ Douglas Preston
we are the half-destroyed instruments that once held a course
~ Adrienne Rich
Wisdom comes through suffering.
~ Aeschylus
Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
~ Aeschylus
Wisdom comes only through suffering.
~ Aeschylus
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.
~ Aeschylus
It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
~ Aeschylus
When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
~ Aeschylus
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
~ Aeschylus
Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
~ Aeschylus
Do not kick against the pricks.
~ Aeschylus
Exiles feed on hope.
~ Aeschylus
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
~ Aeschylus
Suffering brings experience.
~ Aeschylus
Plodding wins the race.
~ Aesop
Those who suffer most cry out the least.
~ Aesop
However long the night, the dawn will break.
~ African Proverb
The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.
~ African Proverb
Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else." "Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality.
~ Agatha Christie
The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.
~ Agatha Christie
Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage." "To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does." "Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage.
~ Agatha Christie
One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by a madman. A madman, let me tell you, can be very logical. If you are rich and logical and also mad, you can succeed for a very long time in living out your illusion. But in the end....in the end this will break up. Because, you see, it is not reasonable what happens here! That which is not reasonable must always pay the reckoning in the end. ~Dr. Barron
~ Agatha Christie
The darkest day, lived till tomorrow, will have passed away?
~ Agatha Christie