Quotes About Resilience

That hurt, didn't it? The boy said. - Yes. It did. - 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. - Really? - No. Don't listen to me. Come on, let's go.

I could tell you why—and you stit wouldn't know. That's all right. You can set and ast a bunch of idjit questions. But not knowin a thing ain't never made it not so. Well, I'm a old man and I've seen some hard times, so I don't reckon Brushy Mountain'll be the worst place I was ever in.

It makes no difference what men think of war ... War endures.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength and that they must make their way back into the common enterprise of man for without they do so it cannot go forward and they themselves will wither in bitterness.

Now come days of begging, days of theft. Days of riding where there rode no soul save he.

People will go to strange lengths to avoid the suffering they have coming. The world is full of people who should have been more willing to weep.

Information and survival will ultimately be the same thing.

The enemy of your undertaking is despair.

Se solo il mio cuore fosse pietra.

Animals might whimper if they're hungry or cold. But they dont start screaming. It's a bad idea. The more noise you make the more likely you are to be eaten. If you've no way to escape you keep silent. If birds couldnt fly they wouldnt sing. When you're defenseless you keep your opinions to yourself.

Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one. Where'd he go?

dwindling slowly on the road behind him like some storybook peddler from an antique time, dark and bent and spider thin and soon to vanish forever.

They rode back, Rawlins leading the riderless horse by the bridlereins. Blevins was sitting in the middle of the road. He still had his hat on. Whoo, he said when he saw them. I'm drunkern shit. They sat their horses and looked down at him. Can you ride or not? said Rawlins. Does a bear shit in the woods? Hell yes I can ride. I was ridin when I fell off. He stood uncertainly and peered about.

They stood among their horses in the squalid little alameda while the wind ransacked the trees and the birds nesting in the gray twilight cried out and clutched the limbs and the snow swirled and blew across the little square and shrouded the shapes of the mud buildings beyond and made mute the cries of the vendors who'd followed them.

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

He knew that those things we most desire to hold in our hearts are often taken from us while that which we would put away seems often by that very wish to become endowed with unsuspected powers of endurance.

Hard people makes hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why God ain't put out the sun and gone away.

He probably doesnt get it that if you scratch from the menu everything that's hard to swallow it's going to make for a pretty lean lunch.

Elindekinden vazgeçmemek her zaman iyi olmayabilir. Ama her zaman kötü de deÄŸildir.

I ain't ahead by a damn sight. I never will be.

Pues la hostilidad del mundo le resultaba ahora nuevamente manifiesta y tan fría como debe de serlo para todo aquel que ya no tiene para combatirla otra cosa que sí mismo.

He sounded like a man with a mouthful of marbles, articulating his goatbone underjaw laboriously, the original one having been shot away.

Ac?tt?, deÄŸil mi? dedi oÄŸlan. Evet. Ac?tt?. Sahiden cesur musun? Orta karar. Yapt???n en cesurca ÅŸey ne? Yola kanl? bir balgam tükürdü. Bu sabah uyanmak, dedi. Sahiden mi? Hay?r. Bana ald?rma. Gel hadi, gidelim.

There wasn't any virtue in it. The drinking or the quittin? Either one. There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.