Victor Hugo Quotes

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

No Victory Without Suffering

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I've always believed in survival.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.