Quotes About Resilience

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.

Death cannot kill that which does not die.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

La tristesse durera toujours.]

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

The choice, as Eddie saw it, was as simple as it was brutal: get moving and keep moving or stand in one place long enough to start thinking about what all of this meant and simply die of fright.

Part of us did die. Literally - that tissue on your face, the part they removed. It died. And you can't recover from any kind of death without mourning it.

You become a changed person when you face the reaper and deny him your soul.

Death had touched her, hurt her, and left her to deal with its disagreeable aftermath.

Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.

Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.

Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.

The thought of death destroys some people and saves others.

Death is not something you get over. It's the rip that exposes life in a before and after chasm, and all you can do is try to exist as best you can in the after.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

For me, I will live so long as I can, however beaten, however maimed. I will do good to those who love me, and harm to those I hate, so long as my lungs draw breath.

Death is easy when you've already tried to find it.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.

I forgive you, " I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

So, " he asked. "How's death?""Hard, " she said. "It just keeps going.