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Quotes About Resilience

Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.
~ Lana Del Rey
All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
~ George Santayana
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
~ Yann Martel
Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
~ Juliette Binoche
Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Everybody's damaged by something.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again
~ Gale Forman
But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is the distance between reality and pain.
~ Robyn Hitchcock
The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring from her hood of bone. She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag.
~ Sylvia Plath
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.
~ Chris Gethard
Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything
~ David Almond
I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.
~ Emma Thompson
Drawing Lavi's smile eases me precisely because he has such a sad fate.
~ Katsura Hoshino
How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.
~ Elvis Presley
Today,' said Lymond, 'if you must know, I don't like living at all. But that's just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I'll be bright as a bedbug again.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.
~ Lemony Snicket, The End
My whole life has been one big broken promise.
~ Sara Zarr, How to Save a Life
One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear.
~ Faraaz Kazi
Flowers that bloom in the winter may not survive till spring.
~ K. Hari Kumar
His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien