Willa Cather Quotes

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

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

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.

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

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

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

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

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.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

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

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

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

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

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.

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

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.