Colin Wilson Quotes

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

I've stopped questioning things and how things work.

I should not mind anything at all.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

Tolerance is something you don't like, but put up with.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

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

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

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

If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

There are certain things in politics you cannot stop. You just can’t stop. You just have to grin and bear it.

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

It doesn't really bother me if people misunderstand me. It's cool, but you can't do anything about it.

It's that kind of Dublin mentality: you just have to grin and bear some things.

Silence is accepting the unacceptable when it comes from anybody.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

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.