Quotes About Endurance

She wanted it to last forever. She wanted him in her. She wanted release. She could not endure much longer without release. But not yet. Not yet. She wanted the wanting him to go on forever. She did not want thought or sanity or the cold and cruel world to come back. She wanted this to go on forever.

death struggle had been a grievous one. On

I went downstairs and carried the dog upstair in my arms. It's laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end. Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence. I placed it upon a cushion on the rug.

Brisa del mar, sol y paciencia, Watson; todo se andará.

Traveled a considerable distance, and would have gone to the Pole, but my matches run short and I couldn't get a smoke (Dangerous work: Dairy of an Arctic Adventures)

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

Izdrži. To je jedino što bilo tko od nas može u?initi na ovome svijetu.

I lived in that contented state a long while before I was finally able to look back and admit how desolate my life had once been. I'm sure I could never have told my story otherwise; I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

Dem Elend, das in uns wohnt, können wir natürlich nicht entfliehen.

think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

When you want to break a board, cracking it in the middle is only the first step. Success comes when you bounce up and down with all your might until the board snaps in half

If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up a zero?

There are certain people, the sicker they get the longer they live.

though our hearts break, we cannot flinch...

He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back--that's an earthquake. And then you get a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished.

Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson Crusoe . In the end he came home. There never ought to be an end.

But the big hills up at the lake helped to make him feel that the houseboat man did not matter. The hills had been there before Captain Flint. They would be there for ever. That, somehow was comforting.

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one's efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.