Robert Burton Quotes

I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.

What can't be helped must be endured.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

What can't be changed must be endured.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

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

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

No cross no crown.

Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.

How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

I struggled for so many years.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

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

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.