Ordeal Book Quotes & Sayings

Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys. — Ramona Koval

Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives. — Henry David Thoreau

It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others. — Anne McCaffrey