Endured Quote by Lorrie Moore

“A life without living was simply a death without dying.”

— Ais

“Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.”

— Samuel Johnson

“I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

“Life was fleeting, I had learned, and death guaranteed. There had to be some greater purpose to it than the routine existance of daily…

— Moazzam Begg

“Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.”

— John Paul Warren

“Living life without hardships is simply not living at all.”

— Chris Imholte

“Long life wore away everything that was not essential.”

— Michael Chabon

“(a deprivation that, in truth, was not so much a daily trial of living as a suffocating flatness of life),”

— Jonathan Stone

“This was in truth not living; it was scarcely even existing, and they felt that it was too little for the price they paid.…

— Upton Sinclair

“Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.”

— Jamie Magee

“Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious. ”

— Jack Kerouac

“Life is a great escape from deprivation and early death.”

— Angus Deaton