Quotes About Resilience

We survive in adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

Di colpo privata di due persone, come ce l'avrebbe fatta ad andare avanti questa famiglia? Era come una pentola spezzata: mezza pentola non fa una pentola, mezza famiglia non fa una famiglia.

In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?

Ne ho combattute a decine di guerre io, e ogni volta mi dicevo: vecchio mio, anche se muori devi vivere lo stesso. Le pallottole m'hanno sfiorato in ogni punto del corpo, ma non mi sono mai fatto niente. Chunsheng, basta pensare di non morire e non morirai.

To live is to conspire against death knowing that death is our best ally

Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg.

There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.

A small night storm blows Saying 'falling is the essence of a flower' Preceding those who hesitate

Longing at eighteen for an early demise, I felt myself unfitted for it. I lacked, in short, the muscles suitable for a dramatic death. And it deeply offended my romantic pride that it should be this unsuitability that had permitted me to survive the war.

I had been handed what might be called a full menu of all the troubles in my life while still too young to read it. But all I had to do was spread my napkin and face the table.

No one can know what a sacrifice it is for me to be gentle and docile.

And the trap into which the deformed person finally falls does not lie in his resolving the state of antagonism between himself and the world, but instead takes the form of his completely approving of this antagonism. That's why a deformed person can never really be cured.

He had lost Satoko. And with that he was content. For by now he had learned how to quiet even his subsequent resentment. Every show of feeling was now governed with a marvelous economy. If a candle has burned brilliantly but now stands alone in the dark with its flame extinguished, it need no longer fear that its substance will dissolve into hot wax. For the first time in his life, Kiyoaki came to realize the healing powers of solitude.

Tu sei come un torrente chiaro che scorre sulle rocce, io sono come il suo letto levigato, eroso dalla corrente. Solo se il torrente si asciuga il letto viene risparmiato ma, nonostante tutto, quest'ultimo non vuole inaridirsi e desidera ardentemente che le acque non cessino di scorrere e di consumarlo...

Duga patnja otupljuje ljude. Otupljeni od patnje više nisu u stanju posumnjati u radost.

Bir amip olsaydim,surekli bolunebilir bir tek hucreli olsaydim,cirkinligi yenerdim,diye dusundu. Oysa insan hicbir seyi yenebilecek oranda buyuk veya kucuk degildi.

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...

NO! Don't force yourself to be alone! If you're alive, you can meet that person, somewhere, someday! The person that will be glad that you're alive! You can't... you can't want yourself to die!! So... live...

I keep on fighting...but I can't keep going on this way

My body is a mere vessel. You cannot kill the real me. So shoot, enjoy the brief taste of victory.

Each of us has an inner battle. We fight for happiness, and to stay alive. We fight to pursue our dreams.

I want to be bullied. But in again and you'll pay." "She... wants to be bullied...?

Just as in nature good weather can't last indefinitely, so too must there always be times of trial in human lives.

Now I have beaten a song back into you, rise and walk away like a panther.