Cyril Tourneur Quotes

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

To the stars through thorns.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.

To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

I've gone through hell and back.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

We will persevere, come life or death.

Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

I've seen a great deal of hardship in my life.

I've fought injured so many times for so many years.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.