T. S. Eliot Quotes

Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.

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

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

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.

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

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.

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

You can and you must expect suffering.

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

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.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.

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

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

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

I've gone through hell and back.

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

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.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.