“In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.” AgePastAcceptanceCorruptionRuinsEnduranceCapturedDepravity Book:Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts
“Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'” MindWholePastAsksTroubleDifficultyRegardEnduranceUnbearable Book:Meditations Source: Meditations
“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.” PastEnduranceCalculationsCheerfulnessWondrous Author:Thomas Carlyle