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Quotes about Resilience

Innocence is innocent not because it rejects but because it accepts; is innocent not because it is impervious and invulnerable to everything, but because it is capable of accepting anything and still remaining innocent; innocent because it foreknows all and therefore doesn't have to fear and be afraid.
— William Faulkner
be.—Yes he thought Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
— William Faulkner
It surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.
— William Faulkner
She is not listening. If she could hear words like that she would not be getting down from this wagon, with that belly and that fan and that little bundle, alone, bound for a place she never saw before and hunting for a man she ain't going to ever see again and that she has already seen one time too many as it is.
— William Faulkner
I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
— William Faulkner
I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner patch him up like a mule, but I be damned if the man that'd let Anse Bundren treat him with raw cement aint got more spare legs than I have.
— William Faulkner
My gad, one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; if you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?
— William Faulkner
Yes, urge I do: warped chrysalis of what blind perfect seed: for who shall say what gnarled forgotten root might not bloom yet with some globed concentrate more globed and concentrate and heady-perfect because the neglected root was planted warped and lay not dead but merely slept forgot?
— William Faulkner
The lowly and invincible of the earth—to endure and endure and then endure, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
— William Faulkner
Po jakim? czasie cz?owiek przyzwyczaja si?, zapomina i nawet nie czuje, ?e zimno, bo zapomnia?, co to jest ciep?o.
— William Faulkner
Anlay???n ötesindeki sevgi dedikleri bu iÅŸte: bu gurur, yan?m?zda getirdiÄŸimiz, ameliyat odalar?na ta??d???m?z, inatla, k?zg?nl?kla yeniden topraÄŸa götürdüÄŸümüz bu iÄŸrenç ç?plakl???m?z? saklama isteÄŸimiz.
— William Faulkner
As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.
— William Golding