Mark Strand Quotes

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

What can't be helped must be endured.

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

What can't be changed must be endured.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

I have been doing this [acting] for a really long time, so I've come to expect things to take a really long time. You get to a place where you do your job and then you dust your hands off and say, "Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens." There's nothing I can do to affect it.

We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.

Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Bear calamities with meekness.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

What else may hap, to time I will commit.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

The worse that could happen has already happened to me.

Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.