Winston Churchill Quotes

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

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

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

After awhile you could get used to anything.

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

What can't be cured must be endured.

No victory is free from sorrow.

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

Mistakes happen in wars. Wars do not go well…. But we adjust.

My heart bled for the inhabitants.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone around him.

… there isn’t anything you can’t stand if you are only born and bred to it..