Quotes About Strength

Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge

Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun and gone away.

those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength and that they must make their way back into the common enterprise of man for without they do so it cannot go forward and they themselves will wither in bitterness

Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

Who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe.

At our noblest we announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives.

The razorous shoulder blades sawing under the pale skin.

What's the bravest thing you ever did? Getting up this morning, he said.

Dont let go. Okay. No matter what. No matter what.

You have to carry the fire.

I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it.

There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.

Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen horror in the round and learned at least that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance.

Are you real brave? Just medium. What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

That hurt, didn't it? The boy said. - Yes. It did. - Are you real brave? - Just medium. - What's the bravest thing you ever did? - He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said. - Really? - No. Don't listen to me. Come on, let's go.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength and that they must make their way back into the common enterprise of man for without they do so it cannot go forward and they themselves will wither in bitterness.

That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

The enemy of your undertaking is despair.

Se solo il mio cuore fosse pietra.

Todo va a ir bien, ¿verdad, papá? Sí. Todo irá bien. Y no nos va a pasar nada malo. Desde luego que no. Porque nosotros llevamos el fuego. Así es. Porque llevamos el fuego.

Yeah, said the Kid. He dredged up his watch and checked the time. Maybe you'd better go eat. You need to keep your strength up if you aim to wrest the secrets of creation from the gods. They're a testy lot by all accounts.

Hard people makes hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why God ain't put out the sun and gone away.

There wasn't any virtue in it. The drinking or the quittin? Either one. There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.