Quotes About Endurance

Vivere ardendo e non bruciarsi mai

Radian. The prisoner's name is Radiana. Who is keeping her prisoner? Time, Stelio. Time is guarding the doors with his scythe and his hour-glass, as in all those old prints...

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

There is no purity to bearing pain alone.

I thought you were worried I was going to die," Sam said. "No. You'll never die. And if you ever died, I'd just start the game again," Sadie said. "Sam's dead. Put another quarter in the machine." "Go back to the save point. Keep playing, and we'll win eventually.

There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.

The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

If we did not mark the days, we would not know how much we had survived.

But this was classic Sam—he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future.

I'm going to play until the end of this life.

How long will I be in here?" I asked. "Varies," said the guard as he closed the door and locked me in. "Usually until Mrs. Cobrawick thinks you learned your lesson. I hate this job. Try not to lose your mind, girl." Those were the last words spoken to me for a very long time. The guard had given me good advice, which turned out to be nearly impossible to follow.

So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you. And I will focus on the long game. As they say in baseball, losing game one and even game two is no reason to give up on the whole series. When you're ready, if you're ever ready, give me the word.

Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.

There are people like you and like me. We have bad things happen to us, and we survive them. We are sturdy. But with people like your friend, you must be exceptionally gentle, or they may break.

You are a gaming person, which is to say you are the kind of person who believes that "game over" is a construction. The game is only over if you stop playing. There is always one more life. Even the most brutal death isn't final.

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it.

I thought you were worried I was going to die," Sam said. "No. You'll never die. And if you ever died, I'd just start the game again," Sadie said. "Sam's dead. Put another quarter in the machine." "Go back to the save point. Keep playing, and we'll win eventually.

She walked through another gate. It occurred to Sadie: She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.)

he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future.

It gets more exciting," Imogen assured her. "You must be patient, Galina." "If it takes too long, I'll be dead," Nana replied.

I have a pain that exists only in my head," she said, once some of her vitality had been restored. "I have had it my whole life. But when I feel that pain, I am incapacitated by it, and I am certain that I can't go on.

There are many challenges to long-distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put one's house keys.

The score had stood so long, it had burned into the monitor.

It begins to seem to me that life is little more than a series of losses, and as you must know by now, I hate losing.