Thomas Huxley Quotes

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

As long as one suffers one lives.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

We must learn to suffer more.

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently