Quotes About Endurance

But by now anything was better than hope.

I must tell her, but later, later, later, when it's all long finished and no longer an agony.

Theo wanted to call him back. But then he thought, oh let him go, there's no mending a fruitless love, it just has to be endured.

Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go on and on and nothing would stop it. And no one from now on for ever would know how much he suffered and what it was really like to be him. How can I bear it, he thought, how can I go on bearing it without becoming something savage and awful?

Could she endure it, the long vigil of death made visible?

Yes, I've endured so much, and you seem to think this means I will endure anything. It does not.

He felt indestructible because destroyed.

Those were the tortures of the night. The tortures of the day consisted in pretending to eat, pretending to play, pretending to be happy, passing the hours, enduring the sympathetic looks and the loving remarks.

Sometimes he felt like a victim constantly revived in order to suffer more.

Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait.

Ah take some more crass humiliation for what seems like an eternity.

One day this magnificent charge will go, like vision, hearing, continence, and I hope it's the very last of them to succumb.

Nimeni nu poate sc?pa de suferin??, cel mai bun lucru pe care îl putem face e s? nu suferim orbeÈ™te.

Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose partique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.

Inside yourself you're strong. That's the place where strength counts. Strength shows not only in how fast you can chop down trees.' -p. 5

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Galaxy, he hated them! He stopped himself, drew a firm breath...There was no use thinking hate...He had learned to bear in silence. He ought not forget what he had learned now. Of all times, not now.

Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being since their own mortality is endurable only so long as it is universal.

Battling a sickness of the spirit was like standing in a quickstand and beating it with a stick.

No ha dicho cuando volverá. Hardin contestó: -Lo sé…; ¡Pero espero que no vuelva hasta que usted y yo estemos segura y cómodamente muertos!

We can't give up just because the Universe does.

Therefore, for the sake of all of us, let's abandon our useless, endless, suicidal bickering and unite behind the real task that awaits us—to survive—to learn—to expand—to enter into a new level of knowledge. Let us strive to inherit the Universe that is waiting for us; doing so alone, if we must, or in company with others—if they are there.

I had already discovered that there was no limit to how much suffering I can bear.

However, the courage to take a rope and hang one's self, or jump out of a window, I do not have. Only those who are not accustomed to pain can do that.