Ibelievemanwill not merelyendure, hewill prevail.Heis immortal, not because he, alone among creatures, has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
  Nobel prize acceptance speech.

   Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

-Hirohito
  Declaration,15  Aug. Quoted in Hugh Cortazzi  The Japanese Achievement (1990).

The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Reviewing Soame Jenyns  A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, in the Literary Magazine,  Apr^  Jul.

Si la vie est mise¤  rable, elle est pe¤  nible a'   supporter; si elle est heureuse, il est horrible de la perdre. L'un revient a' l'autre. If life ismiserable, it is difficultto endure; if it ishappy, it is horrible to lose.They come to the same thing.

-La Bruye'  re,Jean de
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'De l'homme', no.33.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle 2, l.217^19.

   A strange manner of battle, where one side works by constant motion and ceaseless charges, while the other can but endure passivelyas it standsfixed tothesod.The Norman arrow and sword worked on: in the English ranks the only movement was the dropping of the dead: the living stood motionless.

-William of Poitiers   11c.
c.1071 Of theBattle of Hastings,14 Oct1066. Gesta Guillelmi ducis Normannorum et regis Anglorum (edited by R Foreville,1952).