George Eliot Quotes

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

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

There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.

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

Silence in times of suffering is the best.

Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

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.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.