Quotes About Endurance

Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened.

You died. I cried. And kept on getting up. A little slower. And a lot more deadly.

need to understand how much you're willing to go through to have a shot at being alive and what level of being alive is tolerable to you.

ODTAA syndrome: the syndrome of One Damn Thing After Another.

Courage, Laches responds, "is a certain endurance of the soul.

The rest of the night went no better.

I never made it to the other side.

Having given up totally on making it to anything else that day, I spotted a

I was impressed that he had learned to tolerate the winters.

and he couldn't endure the prospect of a longer operation.

there was nothing for them to do but wait.

In fact, he argued, human beings need loyalty. It does not necessarily produce happiness, and can even be painful, but we all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable.

waiting for the sick feeling to pass

She just had to hang in there, she told herself

I need to understand how much you're willing to go through to have a shot at being alive and what level of being alive is tolerable to you.

The effort and expense it took to keep him going were enormous

we all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable. Without it, we have only our desires to guide us, and they are fleeting, capricious, and insatiable. They provide, ultimately, only torment.

I'd eat right through pain—even to the point of throwing up

We do not want to endure long pain and short pleasure. Yet certain pleasures can make enduring suffering worthwhile. The peaks are important, and so is the ending.

merely as struggling human beings.

accepted stoically, without fear or self-pity or hope for anything

If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.

When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.

There are no new pains.