I Survived Quotes

#1. Sheesh, I'm surprised you've survived out here this long. Tell me, are you normal for a warrior or are you like a special day-release case or something?" "What?

Mina Carter

#2. You mean on YouTube?" "No, I mean I was watching the game when you got laid out. Hardest hit I've ever seen. I don't know how you survived it, Amos, I really don't." "Why'd

David Baldacci

#3. I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

Brett Favre

#4. When I have survived the worst, opening my eyes underwater, sniffing water into my sinuses and snorting it out,

Suzanne Collins

#5. Hey, guys, do you remember that time I was double-seat-belted in the wayback and the door flew open and the beer fell out but I survived completely uninjured? How is that even possible?

John Green

#6. There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.

Willie Lanier

#7. Crockery broke and fabric frayed. The delicate things I cared about perished, while the hard things like swords survived.

Sujata Massey

#8. And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. I have survived my first day of chemo and I like this feeling of survival. It's alive and it's right and it's what I will make sure I feel every day for the rest of the life I have left. I make a promise to myself: While I'm dying, I will be completely fucking alive.

Glenn Rockowitz

#10. I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.

Jen Calonita

#11. Every day when everybody would have lunch I would do TM [Transcendental Meditation] and then I would eat while I was working because I had missed lunch but that is how I survived the 9 years [of Seinfeld], it was that 20 minutes in the middle of the day would save me.

Jerry Seinfeld

#12. The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.

Amanda Lindhout

#13. Yes, but . . ." She hesitated, her gaze finally coming to me. "I survived because I fell in love."
With you was unspoken.

Kim Harrison

#14. I survived the whole day guarding Lissa, and you guys said I did a good job. Then, I get back here and meet my downfall in the form of a bench.

Richelle Mead

#15. I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

Eric Clapton

#16. I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree

Joel McHale

#17. I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.

Maria Semple

#18. If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

Adoniram Judson

#19. I would never have to work again. I could travel where I wanted, work if and when I wanted, and be completely free. If I survived.

Michael Z. Williamson

#20. We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.

Haruki Murakami

#21. I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die ... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

Yuichiro Miura

#22. I have a fierce eating disorder that has survived even bariatric surgery. I got even fatter after that! Hey, maybe fat people are just trying to get closer to others, did anybody ever that of that?!

Roseanne Barr

#23. Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

Manuel Puig

#24. I have lived through worse, she thought, and she said it aloud, bit through the words: "I've survived worse than you."

"You have," Raine gasped, and he made to roll her again.

Kameron Hurley

#25. It was because of the way you treated me that I learned to be my own person, have my own opinion, stand my ground. It's at least partially because I survived you that I'm the person I am today.

Kieran Scott

#26. I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had its funny side.

Richard Fortey

#27. He was the only reason I survived at the hands of Brandon. I would just close myself off and think of him and the times we had together. He was my salvation in the darkest of dark.

Harper Sloan

#28. I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

Michael Rooker

#29. I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

TobyMac

#30. Remember what we wrote? 'And just as I cannot imagine how I survived the past without you ... I cannot imagine a future without you.' Remember? Well, I'm the future without her, buddy boy, and I can tell you right now that it's not something you're going to relish.

Peter David

#31. I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.

Christopher Meloni

#33. What had happened would always be part of us, but we'd survived it. We were still here. The curtain would fall ons us eventually, but I would fight to keep it up as long as I could. For now it was just us, together, and there was nothing in our way.

Michelle Hodkin

#34. Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

Arthur Golden

#35. Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.

Don King

#36. I survived
A dreadful accident
In the car crash of the century
My shattered hopes
Collapsed on cold cement
But in the back of the ambulance
I'd never felt so content.

Owl City

#37. I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#38. I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

George Michael

#39. I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

Katharine Hepburn

#40. I could be proud to have survived what some have called the asshole of creation, proud that it held me and couldn't keep me. But it is dangerous nonsense to believe that anyone contributed much to her own survival.

Ruth Kluger

#41. I felt guilty because I survived.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#42. When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

Frank McCourt

#43. This is a forsaken place ... I can think of no use for a place like this, except that you could say of it: I saw the heart of nothing, and survived.

Clive Barker

#44. You are not dumb, Yevette. All of us who have got this far, all of us who have survived- how can we be dumb? Dumb could not come this far,I am telling you.

Chris Cleave

#45. That was a heroic deed." Embarrassed, Eragon scuffed his boots against the ground. "I wouldn't have survived if not for Arya." "You are too modest, Argetlam," she admonished. "It was you who struck the final blow.

Christopher Paolini

#46. I think that everyone who is going to really move up has got to go through some trauma ... I'm much more respected in my new job, than I was as the head of the Warner Group, because I survived being thrown out the window, going splat on the concrete, and walking ...

Doug Morris

#47. Rob chuckles, I'm not some sparkly-skinned, jealous, child whose sensibilities are still stuck at the turn of the twentieth century. Eve, I can adapt. If we survived the sixties I promise you we can survive learning to share the most important person in either of our long lives.

Angela Louise McGurk

#48. I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite. On the other hand, I like the Egyptian stories because they're not as commonly known and they have an exotic flavour.

Rick Riordan

#49. I will survive, because I have survived.

Julie Murphy

#50. I want to live my life in a way that when I get really old, I look back at my life and say: aaah I lived it, not survived it.

Kate Moss

#51. Finally I said, my words soft, "How did you get so wise, Effie?" "I've survived seventy-seven years on this planet," she answered wryly, "and by making the right choices I even managed to live for most of them.

Samantha Young

#52. Buttercup," I say. Thousands of people are dead, but he has survived and even looks well fed. On what? He can get in and out of the house through a window we always left ajar in the pantry. He must have been eating field mice. I refuse to consider the alternative. I

Suzanne Collins

#53. I'd love to be faster. Physically I'm limited, but I've survived by using my head.

Xavi

#54. I've been through hell. It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me.

Elin Nordegren

#55. For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#56. It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.

Helmut Newton

#57. What the creeping crud is that?" [Percy] demanded. "You're inside a giant glowing chicken-man!"
"Hawk!" I yelled.
I decided that if I survived this day I would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They'd probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity.

Rick Riordan

#58. Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why

Kamand Kojouri

#59. In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.

Henry Blodget

#60. The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.

Steve Earle

#61. My faith survived because I realized God didn't want this for us, He never had. I'm passionately looking forward to a new Heaven and Earth where only good exists once more.

Dee Henderson

#62. I've seen the future, and I survived the test of time.

Mike Caro

#63. In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe In a fast German car I'm amazed that I survived An airbag saved my life

Thom Yorke

#64. I've been married a couple of times and survived!

Pamela Anderson

#65. I don't want you to have to handle it. That's the horror of my past. But you ... you're the reality of my present. You're the proof I survived. The prize in the cereal box.

J. Kenner

#66. If you're smart you're just gonna be all about the work. But as a young person, you want to going out to clubs and doing all the stuff. I'm just glad I survived it.

Christian Bale

#67. Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge.

Legs McNeil

#68. I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

Ted Olson

#69. You survived; I survived. We're together again. I once begged the gods to let me see you - if only for a moment. To see you and know you'd made it. Just once; that was all I ever hoped for.

Sarah J. Maas

#70. You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

Paul Newman

#71. But somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

Laurie R. King

#72. I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.

George Carlin

#73. Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.

Ishmael Beah

#74. I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.

P.C. Cast

#75. But after I'd survived for so long on the scraps from my own emotional table, you spoiled me with a daily banquet of complicitous what-an-asshole looks at parties, surprise bouquets for no occasion, and fridge-magnet notes that always signed off XXXX, Franklin.

Lionel Shriver

#76. I'm fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.

Han Kang

#77. Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

Mickey Spillane

#78. You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

Emily Bronte

#79. The last three and a half months have been anything but easy. It still amazes me how far I've come in the last three and a half months. It amazes me even more that I survived the last three and a half months.

Sarah Ann Walker

#80. I can't date a man who has survived for centuries by biting women and sucking their blood." - Heather
"I bet he gives one hell of a hickey." - Fidelia

Kerrelyn Sparks

#81. My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.

Rick Allen

#82. Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs lightly and trying to make sure I've got consistency.

Rodney Atkins

#83. Why should he be spared?'
'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

Catherynne M Valente

#84. Surviving is a basic thing. Getting by. Staying alive in whatever way we can. It doesn't mean we make right choices or drive fine cars or have good jobs. It means we found a way not to die. I survived.

Carolyn Wall

#85. And I survived because I made a point of forgetting.

Yann Martel

#86. I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

Shirley Manson

#87. If I had feelings, I probably wouldn't have even survived.

Richard M. Nixon

#88. From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

Craig Scott

#89. I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.

Kerry Washington

#90. I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

Jeff Bridges

#91. I don't see any difference between a prophet and a soldier; the only difference is prophets were jackals and survived while soldiers fought and died.

M.F. Moonzajer

#92. I've been here before, I tell myself. I've been lonelier than this, more hopeless than this, more desperate than this. I've been here before and I survived. I can get through this.

Tahereh Mafi

#93. I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

Twyla Tharp

#94. I was staring down thirty-five in a few months. While I might have thought forty was old when I was her age, I'd since decided to move that particular goal post down the field to somewhere around sixty. And I reserved the right to make it even older if I survived the next ten years.

Marshall Thornton

#95. I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

Halle Berry

#96. I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

Karl Lagerfeld

#97. I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

Tim O'Brien

#98. I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

Issey Miyake

#99. I open my eyes and sit straight up , gasping, filling my lungs. I'm happy no one's here to see me, because I'm sputtering and splashing and coughing up water. There's no rush of having survived, only emptiness, and lungs that need air, and wet sticking hair to my face

Jennifer Niven

#100. It was the first time I'd ever considered that gay might not just be about whom we slept with but a kind of sensibility, what survived of feeling after all the fears and evasions of the closet.

Paul Monette