Quotes About Resilience

Pictures of heroism and triumph only tempt those who know nothing of the sufferings and terrors of war.

meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same.

War is a business of terrible pressures, and persons who take part in it must fail if they are not strong enough to withstand them.

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.

I don't reproach the spring for starting up again. I can't blame it for doing what it must year after year. I know that my grief will not stop the green.

Even if you bar my way, even if you stare me in the face, I'll pass you by on the chasm's edge, finer than a hair.

a stone / which in its own archaic, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts.

Cierta gente huyendo de otra gente. En cierto país bajo el sol y bajo ciertas nubes.

History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares: —it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells and bitter bread.

Funny little thing. How could she know that even despair can work for you if you're lucky enough to outlive it.   I'd

Eso de fotogénico tiene poco, y requiere años. Todas las cámaras se han ido ya a otra guerra.

A ja nie wiem i nie wiem i trzymam si? tego jak zbawiennej por?czy.

After every war someone has to clean up. Things won't straighten themselves up, after all.

Pardon me, deserts, that I don't rush to you bearing a spoonful of water.

I know how to handle misfortune, how to take bad news, I can minimize injustice, lighten up God's absence, or pick the widow's veil that suits your face.

You're still a young man/woman. It's not too late to learn hw to unwind. Who said you have to take it on the chin?

He who wishes to drown himself must have an ax at hand to cut the ice.

Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back.

When everybody else is bending with the wind, very few people will lean against it.

Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time.

Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide.

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