Lisa See Quotes

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

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

The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

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

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.