Anna Quindlen Quotes

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.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

Life is just an ongoing process.

It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

Life is not a success only journey.

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle.

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

I'm sure you've felt this way along the way: Yes, I got to do what I wanted to do. But it was much harder than I thought it was going to be, and it continues to be. You never get to a place that is a place of rest. I think that's OK. It's not bad - life is hard work!

I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a certain point, it can flow around any obstacle in order to get where it wants.

The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on.

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

So, to me, it does shift, but it goes round. It just keeps going round and round and round. So if you have the longevity you have the belief and you have the resources to just keep at it you just ignore all that and just keep going where you're at.

Life doesn't retreat.