Betty Smith Quotes

As long as one suffers one lives.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

Better to suffer than to die.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

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.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

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

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.

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

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.

You can and you must expect suffering.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

We must learn to suffer more.

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