Quotes about Endurance
The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.
- Isabel Allende
Shared pain is more bearable.
- Isabel Allende
He had always been thin, but there he was reduced to nothing but skin and bones. His skin was burned by the unrelenting sun, salt, and sand, his features sharpened: he was a Giacometti sculpture in cast iron.
- Isabel Allende
This is a road I must travel bleeding.
- Isabel Allende
True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
- Isabel Allende
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.
- Thomas a Kempis
If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.
- Thomas a Kempis
Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
- William Faulkner
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
- Anonymous
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
- Abraham Lincoln