Quotes About Resilience

When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

Now you are getting confused in the head, he thought. You must keep your head clear. Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

Are you less sad now?" Honest Lil asked "Yes." "Tell me, Tom. What are you sad about?" "El mundo entero." "Who isn't sad about the whole world? It goes worse all the time. But you can't spend your time being sad about that." "There isn't any law against it." "There doesn't have to be a law against things for them to be wrong.

In life, one must (first) last. ("Dans la vie, il faut [d'abord] durer.")

Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought.

Grief doesn't split.

The world breaks everyone and later many are strong at the broken places.

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

Fall for them, but don't let them ruin you.

Fight them," he said. "I'll fight them until I die.

This is a bad life for good children

There isn't any need to deny everything there's been just because you are going to lose it.

I may not be as strong as I think,' the old man said, 'But I know many tricks and I have resolution.

Ma di cosa sei fatta, tu? Di quello che ami disse lei. Più l'acciaio.

My Latin is very beat up," Thomas Hudson said. "Along with my Greek, my English, my head, and my heart. All I know how to speak now is frozen daiquiri. ¿Tú hablas frozen daiquiri tú?

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

It was probably bad busting it off," Bill said. "But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you." "Yes

I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go; but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.

She needs an enemy so badly always that she has to keep one near and she's the nearest and the easiest to attack knowing the weaknesses and strengths and all the faults of our defenses.

I can write a short story in six words. For sale: baby shoes, never used

If the people show too much courage on this world, the society must choke them to break them - and by that, of course, kill them. The society breaks everyone, but after that many become stronger on that broken places. And those it cannot broke, it kills them.

But neither bull force nor bull courage lasted, she knew now, and what did last? I last, she thought. Yes, I have lasted. But for what?

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

You have anything else eating you?" "Just in general." "How?" "Well I'm half crazy and you're half crazy and then we've got this crew of half saints and desperate men." "It isn't bad to be half saint and half desperate man.