I was in training one very long time ago (about 2 centuries ago or so it seems) and we had to crawl through about 40 feet of very thick and dense briar and thorns patch at night in the rain.  The instructor told us "see you on the other side".  It stayed with me all these years with the implication of 'you are going to endure hell in there, you will be cut, scratched and injured BUT you will make it'.  On the eve of potentially 10 Days of Darkness it felt appropriate to say it once again.