Quotes About Strength

The midday heat sapped her strength, and the sluggishness reached through to her thoughts

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

Out onto the battered road, then, the city falling away behind them. After a time, Karsa glanced back and bared his teeth at her. 'Listen. That is better, yes?' 'I hear only the wind.' 'Better than ten thousand tireless contrivances.

See him. In the eternity before dawn. When among mortals courage is at its weakest, when fear sinks talons on the threshold and will not let go. When one awakens to such loneliness as to twist a moan from the chest. But then... you feel it, breath catching. You feel it. You are not alone. The Watch stands guard.

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

The easiest thing to break is a man's heart

She pushed herself upright, stumbling as pain closed iron bands around her ankles.

The harder the world the fiercer the honor

A defense based on the weakness of nature belongs to untutored children and dogs that bite, Captain.

Power and immunity, a most deadly combination.

Will you accept that suffering defies boundaries and that pain carves no line in the sand?

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

Confidence was a seed that could grow in any soil, no matter how impoverished. She had seen as much again and again.

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

I am a sword about to leave its scabbard. I am iron, and in the day's light I shall blind you all.

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.

For a long time, Lostara had concluded that the woman in command of the Bonehunters was simply incapable of revealing her vulnerable side.

Kalam knelt beside Quick Ben, studied the man's face for a moment, the slack expression, the closed eyes. Then he slapped the wizard. Hard. Quick Ben swore, then glared up at the assassin. 'I should crush you like a bug, Kalam.' 'Right now, I think,' he rumbled in reply, 'a bug's fart might blow you right off this ship, Quick.

To live a hard life was to make solid and impregnable every way in, until no openings remained and the soul hid in darkness, and no one else could hear its screams, its railing at injustice, its long, agonizing stretches of sadness. Hardness without created hardness within.

and is she sorry? By Apsalar she is not!

You weren't punished for not doing what you were told. (...) They hurt you because they could, because there was no-one there who was capable of stopping them.

When suffering awaits, it takes great courage to stride forward, to enter this unrelenting, unforgiving realm.

There is plenty of dignity in just holding on

your scars burn bright on your soul