Dan Simmons Quotes

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Survival is triumph enough.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

While we breathe, we will hope.

Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.

And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

Life is stronger than death.

No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.

It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!

I'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan. Because if you don't kill all of us at once, whoever's left are not going to be the weak ones. The strong ones- and only the strong ones- will survive. The bent but unbroken, if you know what I mean. People like me. And people like you.

Enduring, or carrying on, is not just a matter of tolerating circumstances and hanging in there, but of pressing forward.

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

Without patience, there can be no genius

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

The pain goes away, but your work always remains.