Quotes About Resilience

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

I don't want to die without any scars.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.

When you are getting beat to death, get your head out of the mixer.

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

Death's vigilance is eternal, so shall mine be.

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

I'll hit you so hard you'll starve to death rolling!

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.

EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH

Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.

Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.