Allison Pearson Quotes

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

Better to suffer than to die.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

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.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

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

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

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.

I am struggling, though. It’s f-cking hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.

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

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

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

To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.

For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

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 learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

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.

So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.