Quotes About Resilience

I'd lost count of the disappointments.

For how long could we fail until we surrendered?

I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.

The difference between conceding and accepting is depression.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of...

It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.

I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.

accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.

I promised myself I wouldn't be the first to look away, but I was.

Later that year, when snow started to hide the front steps, when morning became evening as I sat on the sofa, buried under everything I'd lost, I made a fire and used my laughter for kindling: Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!

I didn't want to hear about death. It was all anyone talked about, even when no one was actually talking about it.

Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you.

it broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of

There are only so many times that you can utter 'It does not hurt' before it begins to hurt more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

We are traumatized people. And nothing else has trauma's power to deform the mind and heart.

Use humor as aggressively as chemo. Laugh until your hair falls out. There is nothing that can't be played for a laugh.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go off.

This is what we're like. We are broken individuals, committing to what will be a broken union in a broken world.

Non ci si può difendere dalla tristezza senza difendersi dalla felicità.

I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how. After

D'après toi, pourquoi es-tu ici, Oskar ? - Je suis ici, docteur, parce que maman est inquiète que la vie me mette devant des difficultés insurmontables. - Est-ce qu'elle a raison de s'inquiéter ? - Pas vraiment. La vie est une difficulté insurmontable.

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

Look, I'm not always right. I realize that. But I'm always strong.