Books Quote by Diane Setterfield

“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.”

— Roxane Gay

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,…

— William Faulkner

“Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which keeps a…

— Anonymous

“Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?”

— Joseph Conrad

“He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.”

— Charles Dickens

“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.”

— William Wordsworth

“In time, however, I came to understand that one can adore and desire that which is forever beyond reach. This might, in fact, be…

— Dean Koontz

“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like…

— Marcel Proust

“we steadily endure our lives and ultimately we are alone in our endurance. In this aloneness, we find our strength.”

— Jay Antani

“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.”

— James Carlos Blake