Charles Frazier Quotes

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

It took strength to hold on to inner passion, and Noah had done that.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and - finally - the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don't let them take that away from you.

What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

But still, like air, I'll rise

I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.

I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?