Quotes About Endurance

Richard Bachman

Richard Bachman

He's almost there now, McVries said at his elbow, startling him. When they start half-hoping someone will shoot them so they can rest their feet, they're not far away.

He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she went the whole distance.

He'd had enough suffering right now to last him forever with plenty left over for others if they didn't have enough and wanted to have some more.

Bir ÅŸeyleri sürekli asaletle halleden insanlar var. O ÅŸeylerin ne olduÄŸunun önemi zaten yok.

The next time you feel low, for whatever reason, remind yourself, "This too shall pass." It will.

Patience adds a dimension of ease and acceptance to your life.

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

It took from 1967 to 2003—over three decades—to build the big men. It took a decade—2003 to 2013—to destroy them. I suspect a new generation of big men will return. No people can tolerate chaos forever. Dictators will offer a way out and many of the exhausted and brutalized people of the Middle East will accept them, and I suspect Washington will as well.

Adversity brings out the best in us ... It's everyday living that does us in.

and how if she didn't see him for another thirty years she would still love him, how she would still love him if he was dead until she was dead too.

the measure of us is not what we say or think, but what we are when we are tested by suffering.

The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water.

Speedo, when they worked us seventy days and

He waited for death as a traveller for a bus.

After all, it wasn't food; it was survival.

You survived. Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger, right?" I don't, of course, believe this. Most things that don't kill us right off, kill us later.

I believe I have done these two things. Faced down regret. Avoided ruin. And I am still here to tell about it.

Even the smallest public rigmarole is a pain in the ass, its true importance measurable not in the final effect but by how willing we are to leave our usual selves behind and by how much colossal bullshit and anarchy we're willing to put up with in a worthwhile cause. I always like it better when clowns seem to try to be happy.

Richard Hawke

When they ask how I died, tell them: still angry.

In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough.