Quotes About Endurance

The conditions of writing change absolutely between the first novel and the second: the first is an adventure, the second is a duty. The first is like a sprint which leaves you exhausted and triumphant beside the track. With the second the writer has been transformed into a long-distance runner - the finishing tape is out of sight, at the end of life. He must guard his energies and plan ahead. A long endurance is more exhausting than a sprint, and less heroic.

At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But they can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.

Don't be too sorry for those who die after some pain. It makes them ready to go. Think of how a death sentence must sound when you are full of health and vigour.

Suffering is not increased by numbers: one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

wasn't only evil men who did these things. Courage smashes a cathedral, endurance lets a city starve, pity kills . . . we are trapped and betrayed by our virtues.

Why is it that the hate of man – even of a man like Franco – dies with his death, and yet love, the love which he had begun to feel for Father Quixote, seemed now to live and grow in spite of the final separation and the final silence – for how long, he wondered with a kind of fear, was it possible for that love of his to continue? And to what end?

She said, 'I would rather die.' 'Oh,' he said, 'of course. That goes without saying. But we must keep on living.

And how can anyone say they are strong if they have never been tested? It's easy to be strong when everything is going well. It's when things go to hell that true character emerges.

A man may die yet still endure if his work enters the greater work, for time is carried upon a current of forgotten deeds, and events of great moment are but the culmination of a single carefully placed thought,' said Vitali, reciting the ancient words of wisdom as though they were his own. 'As all men must thank progenitors obscured by the past, so we must endure the present so that those who follow may continue the endeavour.

Somewhere in our Darkest Nights we made up a story about a Man who will never let us down.

Your pleasures lessen in intensity the more the are repeated. Yet your capacity to experience ever more agony--is inexhaustible.

Your pleasures lessen in intensity the more they are repeated. Yet your capacity to experience ever more agony--is inexhaustible.

During this brief interval in the proceedings, we can take a pause to remind ourselves that there is an end to all this in sight and we're almost halfway there. That doesn't mean you can stop paying attention. In fact, you'll have to try harder from here on in.

So this additional indignity will be inflicted upon you. It means, I believe, that humans will not end here, but may rise again—fight again. Humans are always warriors.

After things settle down, we can all take our turn sticking our heads through the hole in the Sisyphus mural.

The mills of the gods grind slowly....but they grind to dust.

I don't say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way.

Might-have and mud are fine places to wallow

24For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? 25But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

Beetles never stop. They gnaw silently and relentlessly. Guilt is like that too.

Enduring their mother was what bound them together. And while they might have had three different dads, they were always 100 percent sisters. Never half sisters. Their sisterhood was the one thing the Knotek girls could depend upon, and really, the only thing their mother couldn't take away. It was what propelled them to survive.

handful. You can't expect

If humans were good at anything, he thought, it was sure as hell good old running.