Richard Matheson Quotes

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

You must change in order to survive.

… there isn’t anything you can’t stand if you are only born and bred to it..

Wheels come off? Get on with it. Cope. Survive.

Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.

It's really amazing how the human mind and body can adapt to new environments. How the once incredible can become so normal.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.