Quotes About Endurance

I want you to feel like you're going to die.

If you want something you have to wait.

When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

Kentucky wants to occupy some clock

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

Hope dies to ten thousand small cuts.

Even a man who has lived a life of sorrows will ask for one more day.

Look at these bones we step over. We go as far as we can go, and then we stop. And that is how it is. That is all it is. So…now what?

A soul carries a vessel of courage. It cannot be refilled. Every thing that takes from it leaves less behind.

The curse of great minds. Arriving young to an idea, surviving the siege that invariably assails it, then, finally, standing guard on the ramparts long after the war's over, weapons dull in leaden hands

Pain worn without pause and for so long could itself become a mask.

If you want us leading you, well, one thing us humans don't understand, and that's giving up. We fight when the fight's been thumped out of us. We rebel when all we got left that's not in chains is inside our skulls. We defy when the only defiance we got left is up and dying.

When it is all one can do to simply hold on, then to suffer is to weather a deluge no god can ease

Leisure is not a relevant notion. Consider the weariness that often afflicts your kind, late in their lives. Then multiply that countless times. This is the burden of being long-lived.

People suffered, many died, but they struggled through and they survived.

It was amazing what could be endured when in the grip of inertia.

It is what we can bear,' she whispered. 'But there is more to life than suffering.

Marching on a promise never given

Feelings lose their edge, leaving us to suffer naught but a plague of bruises, and, after a time, bruises fade.

Kallor never failed such moments. Let the curse flail him, strike him down; let defeat batter him again and again. He would just get back up, shake the dust off, and begin once more. He knew the world was damned.