Quotes about Endurance

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Life will not always be so hard or cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment.

When you find your purpose---and you will find your purpose---never let go. Peace is a product of both Patience and Persistence.

Stories teach us to not give up hope because there are times in our own journey when we mustn't give up hope. They teach endurance because in our lives we are meant to endure. They carry messages that are older than the words themselves, messages that reach beyond the page.

there is something about these expectations and visions of the last things, that will send them into the light and focus of the consciousness of believers, whenever storms of persecution arise and hard distresses invade.

The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.

Shared pain is more bearable.

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.

This is a road I must travel bleeding.

True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.