Quotes About Endurance

A dog, a woman, an' a walnut tree, Th' more yeh beat 'em, th' better they be! That's like us.

The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.

You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming.

A dog, a woman, an' a walnut tree, Th' more yeh beat 'em, th' better they be! That's like us.

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

Painters, poets and philosophers have seen many things in the myth of Sisyphus. They have seen an image of the absurdity of human life, the futility of effort, the remorseless cruelty of fate, the unconquerable power of gravity. But they have seen too something of mankind's courage, resilience, fortitude, endurance and self-belief. They see something heroic in our refusal to submit.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Few heroes die peacefully in their beds after long lives filled with happiness.

wisdom is the ability to cope

The memory of pain soon goes, the memory of pleasure lingers, that is one of life's happier truths.

We know how wars that each side believed would soon be decided can stretch out over months and years. The Greeks and Trojans were perhaps the first to discover this unhappy truth.

What he didn't say was that you don't get cold-resistant because your jackets suck, you just stop complaining about it after a while, because complaining doesn't make you any warmer.

An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because it's never over, it's always just beginning again.

When the whole world hurts, you bite it. Don't you?

It matters if you just don't give up.

While there's life, there is hope.

Whatever happens on earth, the rest of the universe will carry on regardless.

Se chegássemos ao fim da linha, o espírito humano definharia e morreria. Mas não creio que um dia sossegaremos: aumentaremos em complexidade, se não em profundidade, e seremos sempre o centro de um horizonte de possibilidades em expansão.

However bad life may seem, where there is life, there is hope.

When there's life, there's hope

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck

While there's life, there is hope .

Most bad things don't happen.

Stephen Hunter