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Quotes About Resilience

Not all of me shall die.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
~ Khaled Hosseini
When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
~ Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Identical
Failure too is a form of death.
~ Graham Greene
Since coming to Mythos, I'd almost been run through with a sword and mauled to death by a killer kitty cat. Dirty looks didn't faze me anymore.
~ Jennifer Estep
I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.
~ Larry Kramer
In death, hope is everlasting.
~ Unknown
Death laid its eggs in the wound
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Death and worse happened on the plains.
~ Larry McMurtry
I shall not altogether die.
~ Horace
I know death follows me, but I murder him first.
~ Tupac Shakur
We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.
~ Cynthia Ozick
The monster nevers dies.
~ Stephen King, Cujo
He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.
~ John Green
I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.
~ C. S. Lewis
Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.
~ William Shakespeare
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.
~ Dylan Thomas
I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.
~ Ana Lily Amirpour
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
~ Philip Roth
She knew all she needed to know about the history of the human race: the ruthless and the defenseless. She didn't need the dates and the names. The ruthless and the defenseless, there's the whole fucking deal.
~ Philip Roth
the perverse senselessness of just remaining, of not going.
~ Philip Roth