Quotes about Resilience

Though the wind is rough and blowing in their faces, those girls there, striding hand in hand, shouting out a song, seem to feel neither cold nor shame. They are hatless. They triumph.

He was drowned, he used to say, and lying on a cliff with gulls screaming over him. He would look over the edge of the sofa down into the sea. Or he was hearing music… But "Lovely!" he used to cry and the tears would run down his cheeks, which was to her the most dreadful thing of all, to see a man like Septimus, who had fought, who was brave, crying. And he would lie listening until suddenly he would cry that he was falling down, down into the flames!

I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

What she said in To the Lighthouse of Lily Briscoe's art she might have said of her own: that the pen was 'the one dependable thing in a world of strife, ruin, chaos . . .',73 and the godlike power she felt as a writer is perfectly embodied in a passage from that novel.

Knitting is the saving of life.

she] might have been a shell, and his words water rubbing against her ears, as water rubs a shell on the edge of a rock.

How terrible old age was, she thought; shearing off all one's faculties, one by one, but leaving something alive in the centre.

She must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.

Knowledge comes through suffering.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

By the grace of God and by keeping busy making life better for others. That is how women always get through the hard parts of life.