If you're going through hell, keep going.

Hi,

What does the following quote mean?

"If you're going through ****, keep going." Winston Churchill

It sounds like 'If you are in big trouble, don't stop trying until you are out of trouble'.

'Going through ****' is an idiom that means going though terrible difficulties.

Clive

PhilipI'm reminded of "when you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on'.

This reminds me of "hang up your shingle" somehow.

I know exactly what it means!!

It means - when you are experiencing the inner turmoil such as Churchill's major depression, you cannot fight against it, for that will only make it worse!! Instead you have to relax into it and let it run its course.

Jackson6612What does the following quote mean?

"If you're going through ****, keep going."

It means that even very bad times don't last forever. Eventually they come to an end.
If you go through a room, you come in one door, and you go out another door on the other side of the room.
So if you go through ****

CalifJimIf you go through a room, you come in one door, and you go out another door on the other side of the room.
So if you go through ****, you enter at one place and exit at another.

Though I understand what you are saying, still I would like to ask you a question. 

How did you come in?

I came in through door.

How did you come in?

I came in through [the / that / this] door.

How do you get out of this room?

You will get out [using / through] [the /that / this] door.

Would it have been wrong if it were said: You come in through one door, and you

Thank you.

I agree with what everyone has said. I think Churchill is making a play on the fact that "going through" has two senses. (This may be understood, but no one mentioned it.)

If we say, "Her husband drinks all the time, and beats her. She's really going through **** with that man!", we don't necessarily mean to imply that there's an end to it in sight.

But when we say, "We're go

from my life’s example it illustrates

if you’re living through ****, as I see much of us living,
merely keep going, I soon came to realize the choices, I was choosing, to create 'it' in such a way,
and quickly decided to change the choices I no longer wanted to see.