Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.

Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don’t see why we shouldn’t use them against identified enemy targets.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

An army marches on its stomach.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in ‚Red Storm Rising‘.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Life is warfare.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Of course I get hurt.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

F2’s much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you’ve got to start saving. It’s not easy.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.