Edmund Spenser Quotes

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

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

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

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.

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

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

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.

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.