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Quotes About Resilience

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
~ Anne Carson
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
~ Anne Carson
Outside, the natural world was enjoying a moment of total strength.
~ Anne Carson
The red world And corresponding red breezes Went on Geryon did not
~ Anne Carson
Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.
~ Anne Carson
to carry one's own door will make a person clumsy, tired and strange on the other hand, it may come in useful if you go places that don't have an obvious way in, like normality or an obvious way out, like the classic double bind
~ Anne Carson
He lives in a small country of hope, which is his heart.
~ Anne Carson
From girl to woman to who I am now, from love to anger to this cold marrow, from fire to shelter to fire.
~ Anne Carson
I am someone who did not die when I should have died.
~ Anne Carson
A gust of night pushed its way in the door and everyone inside wavered once like stalks in a field then resumed their talk.
~ Anne Carson
MEGARA Wait for worse? You love the light so much? AMPHITRYON I do, I love its hopes.
~ Anne Carson
No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
~ Anne Carson
I cannot not grieve.
~ Anne Carson
Kinds of water drown us. Kinds of water do not.
~ Anne Carson
Seguir siendo humano es romper un impedimento. Quiérelo si eres capaz. Quiérelo si te atreves.
~ Anne Carson
Nothing is as it was before, after the screen has gone to black. Darkness lies on the soul. To use Beckett's phrase, "what cowers behind it begins to seep through." With her new shopping cart Hekabe, queen of Troy, will be prowling the aisled for dog biscuits.
~ Anne Carson
WHEN HE IS there they lift the stones together. The stones are her lungs.
~ Anne Carson
What sense is there in pain at all—however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God?
~ Anne Carson
I'm someone who didn't die when I should have died.
~ Anne Carson
Girls are cruellest to themselves.
~ Anne Carson
You will see me, like a mountain animal, bitter little animal
~ Anne Carson
Nothing is as it was before, after the screen has gone to black. Darkness lies on the soul. To use Beckett's phrase, "what cowers behind it begins to seep through." With her new shopping cart Hekabe, queen of Troy, will be prowling the aisle for dog biscuits.
~ Anne Carson
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
~ Anne Carson
It is not the burdens and resentments we pick up that keep us derailed, but our continuing to tote them.
~ Anne D. LeClaire