Quotes About Resilience

In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.

…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had.

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

When I'm wrong I'm like the Emperor on the Death Star thinking he'll turn Luke. Yet, when I'm right I'm a Jedi like my father before me.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.

If I die Imma do it reppin, I'll never do it second.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: "Death does not exist."

Give death a better name or die trying.

Death is not the worst sorrow.

Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it.

The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.