Quotes about Resilience

I, too, was once like you: fatally hooked on life.

People need such stories, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.

This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.

I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head.

You need to be strong. They were trying to make things better. But it can put a lot of pressure on a person to be told they need to be strong.

It was Crake preserving his dignity, because the alternative would have been losing it.

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

Torture is like dancing: I'm too old for it. Let the younger ones practice their bravery.

I wish I knew what You were up to. But whatever it is, help me to get through it, please. Though maybe it's not Your doing; I don't believe for an instant that what's going on out there is what You meant. I have enough daily bread, so I won't waste time on that. It isn't the main problem. The problem is getting it down without choking on it.

They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.