Sri Aurobindo Quotes

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

Don't despair, even over the fact that you don't despair

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.

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

This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

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.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

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.

Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper.

In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.