Quotes about Perseverance

All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that is soaked.

The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it.

Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches.

A forza d'uscire per recarsi a sognare, viene il giorno in cui si esce per andarsi ad annegare.

what can man do in hell, they sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope.

People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.

We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.

It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by becoming bearable.

He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601.

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.

Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night.

He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.