Lawrence Block 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.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win.

You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong, can withstand anything, that you are not a slave to your body, you don't have to give in to its whining.

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

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

Maybe that’s why I’ve made it as far as I have – 2,521 miles. If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion I’d still be in Nova Scotia. Or else I’d never have started. I’ve seen people in so much pain. The little bit of pain I’m going through is nothing. They can’t shut it off, and I can’t shut down every time I feel a little sore.

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.

As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.

One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.