Quotes About Resilience

God made this world, but he didn't make it to suit everybody, did he?

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.

There's a kind of man that when he cant have what he wants he wont take the next best thing but the worst he can find.

I just meant maybe you could set here and drink one of em with me. He squinted at her. You ever notice how women have trouble takin no for a answer? I think it starts about age three. What about men? They get used to it. They better.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

It was defeat. It was being beaten. More bitter to him than death. You need to get over that, he said.

He said that like every man who comes to the end of something there was nothing to be done but to begin again.

There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.

Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison.

Cormac McCarthy

Well. I think maybe it's harder to lose just one thing than to lose everything.

Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen horror in the round and learned at least that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance.

Are you real brave? Just medium. What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

Are you okay? he said. The boy nodded. Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

The whole affair calls up images you'd rather not entertain. Her great hummocky fundament wobbling away down the street like a sack of cats headed for the river.

Three weeks ago I was a law abidin citizen. Workin a nine to five job. Eight to four, anyways. Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

There had to be a last man standing. And it wasnt the cuate in the Bronco begging for water.

Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door.

Those whom life does not cure death will.

What if a whole goddamned building was to just up and sink? What about two or three buildings? What about a whole block? Harrogate was waving his bottle about. Goddamn, he said. What if the whole fuckin city was to cave in? That's the spirit, said Suttree.

Non voglio fare nessuna promessa, disse. È così che si finisce per farsi male

Quando sognerai di un mondo che non è mai esistito o di uno che non esisterà mai e in cui sei di nuovo felice, vorrà dire che ti sei arreso. Capisci? E tu non ti puoi arrendere. Io non te lo permetterò.

Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance.