Quotes About Resilience

The easy, gentle, and sloping path… is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.

Peter..." She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. "Let's not go there." "That's what people always say about places where they already are.

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

It isn't failing that spells one's downfall; it's running away, giving up.

You can't let pain go beyond a certain level or you start doing crazy things : you swallow some Destop Turbo and your internal organs, composed of the same substances that usually block sinks, break down amidst horrible pain: or else you throw yourself under a metro and find yourself two legs short with your balls crushed to bits, but still alive.

Por mucho valor, sangre fría y humor que uno acumule a lo largo de su vida, siempre acaba con el corazón destrozado. Y entonces uno deja de reírse. A fin de cuentas ya sólo quedan la soledad, el frío y el silencio. A fin de cuentas, sólo queda la muerte.

To refuse to do something because you've already done it, because you've already been there, rapidly leads to the destruction, for yourself as much as for others, of any reason for living, for any possible future, and it plunges you into an oppressive ennui that will eventually transform into atrocious bitterness, accompanied by hatred and rancor toward those who still belong to the land of the living.

The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.

cada vez que pensamos demasiado en el pasado, que volvemos una y otra vez sobre un episodio doloroso, y el psicoanálisis se reduce a poco más que eso, incrementamos las posibilidades de reproducirlo.

Dete je klopka koja se zatvorila, neprijatelj koga ?ete morati i nadalje da izdržavate i koji ?e vas nadživeti.

Siento que se están rompiendo cosas dentro de mí, como paredes de cristal que estallan. Ando como un león enjaulado, rabioso; necesito actuar, pero no puedo hacer nada, porque todas las tentativas me parecen condenadas al fracaso de antemano. Fracaso, fracaso por todas partes. Sólo el suicidio resplandece en lo alto, inaccesible. A medianoche, siento una especie de sorda alteración; se produce algo interno y doloroso. Ya no entiendo nada

En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn't matter how brave you are, or how reserved, or how much you've developed a sense of humour, you still end up with your heart broken. That's when you stop laughing.

Hay cosas que se pueden hacer, y otras que parecen demasiado difíciles. Con el tiempo, todo parece demasiado difícil; la vida se reduce a eso.

I believe my past is my strength.

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

l'enfer vécu et habité rend légitime et désirable un monde où l'on tâcherait d'éviter le retour de ce qui, de près ou de loin, peut lui ressembler.

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Güzel ve zarif yerine, ÅŸirin ve zeki. Bu yazg?y? kabullenmem y?llar?m? ald?. Sonunda bunun 'çok daha iyi' olmasa bile, hiç deÄŸilse bir lanetleme de olmad???n? ister istemez kabulleniverdim." Nadege

Molti uomini sono lâches. Lasciano andar via. Lasciano partire. Lasciano perdere. Perché non vogliono confrontarsi direttamente col dolore. Non sopportano di sentirsi impotenti. E allora cambiano discorso. Oppure riagganciano il telefono. Oppure cominciano a guardare distrattamente gli sms che arrivano sul cellulare per poi dirti che è proprio un peccato, che non possono farci nulla, ma che adesso devono proprio andarsene.