Quotes About Endurance

Will you wait for me forever?

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

The heart apparently doesn't stop that easily.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

At least he never walked.

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

Kafka, in everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's how we survive.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial. You're exactly right. Absolutely. Hope, however, is limited, and generally abstract, while there are countless trials, and they tend to be concrete. That is also something I had to learn on my own.

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

I believe that love is the indispensable fuel that allows us to go on living. Someday that love may end. Or it may never amount to anything. But even if love fades away, even if it's unrequited, you can still hold on to the memory of having loved someone, of having fallen in love with someone. And that's a valuable source of warmth.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—-and for me, for writing as well.

If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and it's the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.

I might think I can't take it any more, that I can't go on any more, but one way or another I get past that.

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

That's what love's all about. You're the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

You can't keep counting forever

Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK guys both. That's why everybody takes out a little insurance. I've got some too, here at the bottom of the heap. That way, you manage to survive if you burn out. If you're all by yourself and don't belong anywhere, you go down once, and you're out. Finished.

But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule.

I miss you something awful sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster.

En una caja de galletas hay muchas clases distintas de galletas. Algunas te gustan y otras no. Al principio te comes las que te gustan, y al final sólo quedan las que no te gustan. Pues yo, cuando lo estoy pasando mal, siempre pienso: Tengo que acabar con esto cuanto antes y ya vendrán tiempos mejores. Porque la vida es como una caja de galletas.

So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence.