Quotes About Endurance

It's the story of one of those perpetual survivors- an expert at being eft behind.

Simplemente volvieron juntos a casa, con los pies doloridos y el corazón cansado.

Rudy, please, wake up. God damn it, wake up, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come one, Jesse Owens, don't you know I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up...

Me maravilla lo que los humanos son capaces de hacer aunque estén llorado a lágrima viva, que sigan adelante, tambaleantes, tosiendo, rebuscando, hallando.

Sono perseguitata dagli esseri umani.

A veces llego demasiado pronto, me adelanto. Y hay gente que se aferra a la vida más de lo esperado.

Ich fürchte ebenfalls, dass am Ende gar nichts zu Ende sein wird. Die Dinge gehen einfach weiter, solange die Erinnerung das Sagen hat und immer eine weiche Stelle in deinen Gedanken findet, um an die Oberfläche zu schlüpfen.

You will be caked in your own body.

I could go on, but I've decided for now that three examples will suffice. Three examples if nothing else, will give you the ashen taste in your mouth that defined my existence during that year.

Not another word was said for more than an hour. They only walked home together with aching feet and tired hearts.

Maybe the only thing that matters is to make our lives last as long as we do. You know, to make a life last until it ends, to make all the parts come out even, like when you rub the last piece of bread in the last drop of oil on your plate and eat it with the last sip of wine in your glass.

Steady as she goes

But I keep going because I've learned over the past few months that as bad as things seem, they can always get worse.

I said, Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.

Your body may be in prison, but your soul doesn't have to be.

Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.

What could never be endured, it turned out, was the last swathe of time before sleep came, the path from larger day to huger night, a little death when the mind was still alive and fluttering. Thus

Pero una vez que la vida ha echado a rodar, no puedes ponerle fin. No tienes la libertad de hacerlo. Hay que aguantar hasta el final. La vida se acabará. Sé exactamente cuánta me queda. Es como si fuera a durar eternamente. Me siento único, eterno. La inmortalidad que me consume es sólo mía.

Mental stamina is required too. All long-term projects require this ability to keep going after the first excitement, through periods of despondency.

The great collapses, the small remains forever.

The great begins great, sustains itself only through the free recurrence of greatness, and if it is great, also comes to an end in greatness. ... Only the everyday understanding and small man imagine the great must ensure forever, a duration he then goes on to equate with the eternal.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.