Janet Fitch Quotes

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.

Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

The years of imprisonment hardened me... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life... there is no longer anything I can fear.

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong, can withstand anything, that you are not a slave to your body, you don't have to give in to its whining.

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone.’ (Nykyrian)