Top 21 Quotes by Robert Falcon Scott

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

Each man in his way is a treasure.

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.