Quotes About Resilience

Let people call me crazy; fuck them.

to Central Park. To sit on a bench." "But there is no more Central Park, Mr. Biskle. It was turned into a parking lot for government employees while you were on Mars.

For a guy with only one peeper, Olsen commented, you're doing okay. Morosely, he added: But you'd sure be up shit creek if you lost the other.

I resemble that worm which crawls through dust, Lives in the dust, eats dust Until a passerby's foot crushes it.

That's why their lives are worse than ours; they can't give up and die - they have to go on.

Começou a caminhar sem destino, as mãos nos bolsos, descendo a canaleta de pedestres. Os minutos passavam e cada vez o medo e o desalento aumentavam mais. Tudo desmoronava ao seu redor. Ele se sentia incapaz de evitar o colapso; limitava-se a testemunhá-lo, completamente impotente, engolfado por acontecimentos demasiado poderosos para que pudesse compreendê-los.

shoulder blades like broken wings.

Yeah, we'll be retreating from now on. Giving ground, instead of taking it. It'll be like this today—losing fights, draws. Stalemates and worse." He raised his feverish eyes toward the ceiling of the little metal housing unit, face wild with passion and misery. "But, by God, we'll give them a run for their money. All the way back! Every inch!

Una legge di sopravvivenza, aveva detto Ragle. Chi rifiutava di rispondere ai nuovi stimoli era destinato a perire. Adattarsi o morire... Nuova versione di una regola senza tempo.

it is always the women who rebuild the civilizations that the men have done their best to destroy

Just when you thought that things couldn't get any worse, you find out that they've always been a lot worse than you thought they were. And then they get worse.

Believe me, I know a lot about harm's way. It turns sharp left off the road to Shitsville when you're least expecting it.

Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.

Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present.

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same." "And this journey we're on? Is that folly or wisdom?" "The greatest wisdom I know.

Truly," he said, "I am dead Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I'm dead, and I'm going to Hell Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "Hush," said Lyra, "we'll go together.

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

Behind her the sun was still shining, so that every grove and every single tree between her and the storm blazed ardent and vivid, little frail things defying the dark with leaf and twig and fruit and flower.

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

We'll find a way. There is a way. We just don't know it yet. Don't stop….

War asks many people to do unreasonable things.

Wir spüren die Kälte, aber sie macht uns nichts aus, denn sie schadet uns nicht. Wenn wir uns gegen die Kälte warm anziehen würden, könnten wir andere Dinge nicht mehr spüren, das Kribbeln der Sterne oder die Musik des Mondlichtes auf der Haut. Dafür lohnt es sich, die Kälte zu ertragen.