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Quotes About Endurance

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life'll get you every time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J. had countered. "Style, no substance, my friend.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J. had countered.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J. had countered.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
All of life's in a sports memoir," she says. "You practice hard and you succeed, but eventually your body gives out and it's over.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Twenty years ago, when she first started doing Survivor Day, it was easy, she says, but now, who's left? Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life'll get you every time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Don't quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port.
~ Gaelic Proverb
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
~ Gail Caldwell
The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.
~ Gail Caldwell
Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.
~ Gail Caldwell
Death is a divorce nobody asked for; to live through it is to find a way to disengage from what you thought you couldn't stand to lose.
~ Gail Caldwell
Real change, though, is forgiving enough to take a little failure, strong enough to take despair in small doses.
~ Gail Caldwell
And yet I sensed that I had not just been pummeled by death but reshaped by it, poised now at some crucial junction between darkness and endurance, which is the realist's version of hope.
~ Gail Caldwell
I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it.
~ Gail Giles
I don't know exactly what you're feeling, but I know it hurts.' She tightened her hug a little. 'Trust me, it might get worse, but in the end, it gets better. It finally gets good. I swear.
~ Gail Giles
As long as you can go on creating new roles for yourself, you are not vanquished.
~ Gail Godwin
These days won't last forever. No days ever do, though sometimes it's hard to convince oneself of that.
~ Gail Godwin
You have spent 94 years in the hall of abstinence.
~ Gail Martin
haven't been able
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
~ Gail Tsukiyama