Quotes About Having Survived

#1. Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.

Art Buchwald

#2. Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

Yoko Ono

#3. Ants are terrifying, having survived for 130 million years, evolving into a monarchical society of soldiers with bizarre levels of self sacrifice. Ants keep slaves. I don't crush them, it's pointless, they outnumber humans tenfold by body mass.

Pega Rose

#4. There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.

Romeo Dallaire

#5. Children's lives are fiendishly hard. Adults, having survived childhood, turn their minds to the future, and if they have a choice, generally retain only the rosiest of childhood memories.

Gregory MacGuire

#6. They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
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Dalton Trumbo

#7. I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if that makes sense, and so I wrote about this character's last day on the job, how after spending 15 years pretending to be a rabbi, he'd in effect become a rabbi.

Tod Goldberg

#8. Whoever lives wins. Don't feel guilty about having survived. If you have time to be feeling guilty, work on living a day longer, a minute longer. And once in a while, remember the ones that died before you. That's good enough.
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Atsuko Asano

#9. On this morning his first waking moments were filled with the audible lamenting breath of having survived another winter night on the streets of St. Louis, those onerous recurring sighs that had become his respiration.

Dan Groat

#10. Having survived something like that, it shows a person they can take more than they thought. It tempers the soul, and if it doesn't destroy you, it can make you stronger.

Sometimes the old cliches weren't just bullshit.

Tymber Dalton

#11. There's no rush of having survived, only emptiness, and lungs that need air, and wet hair sticking to my face.

Jennifer Niven

#12. I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Elie Wiesel

#13. One can live without having survived

Carolyn Forche

#14. She felt no relief at having survived this attack. No heady satisfaction surged through her because she'd made it to shore. She felt only a growing emptiness. A gathering dark. For this was her life now. Not boredom and lectures, but hell-flames and assassins. Massacres and endless flight.

Susan Dennard

#15. The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored.

Richard Russo

#16. 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

#17. I think my strength comes from being an insane drunk. Near death. Wanting death like a lover every day for years. My talent comes from madness - having survived madness.

Dan Fante

#18. It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.

Geraldo Rivera

#19. A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#20. True love is many things and can survive the strongest and most painful of times. When love comes out the other side of a fire, it may be scarred forever, but this bruised love is somehow only greater for having survived the pain.

John Carter Cash

#21. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

Ana Gasteyer

#22. In the dark and the shadows where secrets lived, that was where Julian survived. It was how he had managed for years.

Cassandra Clare

#23. He'd survived, his mind strong. Others ... others were broken. The healing process was going to be a long one, but Judd had pledged himself to it
That thought in mind, he headed to his room to wash up before going to Brenna. Not seeing her wasn't an option ...

Nalini Singh

#24. Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013.

Malala Yousafzai

#25. 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

#26. The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.

Clementine Von Radics

#27. This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Will Rogers

#28. 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

#29. No matter what side you were on, if you had survived Gettysburg you were to be congratulated.

Paulette Jiles

#30. But the habit patterns, inevitably, had survived. To the air, with a wry grin, he murmured, "How long, O Lord? How long?" In his private estimation: not long now.

John Brunner

#31. 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

#32. You survived in his world by being the best of the worst and there was no doubt in my mind that was exactly what Bax was

Jay Crownover

#33. That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

Fede Alvarez

#34. 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

#35. It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself,

Anne Carson

#36. 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

#37. In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.

Peter Garrett

#38. Had it been like that for her father? She could never know. But for the first time in a very long while, she had some sense of who Anakin Skywalker might have been before his fall, and of the goodness that must have survived in him through all the darkness, all the years.

Claudia Gray

#39. When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you.

Leon Brown

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

Mike Huckabee

#43. But he didn't survive a war, not really," Augustus said. "He survived a genocide.

John Green

#44. 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

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

Michael Rooker

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.

Ian McEwan

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#50. 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

#51. If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.

Michelle Sagara

#52. I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them just missing the sparrows' toss and tumble fly away. The couple survived to try it again next season on a railway line!

Initially NO

#53. But a far more virulent strain survived. It's having sex with your thoughts. You'll give birth to increasingly more monstrous ideas.

Grant Morrison

#54. Thank you for your attempt at trying to be thoughtful while stealing shit from me." He picked up a crossword booklet from a chair and tossed it into the trash. "And for filling out my fucking crossword puzzles without me having to ask. I'm not sure how I've ever survived this long without you.

Whitney G.

#55. 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

#56. 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

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

Jen Calonita

#58. 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

#59. 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

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

Sujata Massey

#61. No-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you've survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

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

Willie Lanier

#63. Orsini and one of his fellow conspirators were guillotined, and an accomplice called Carlo di Rudio was transported to Devil's Island, the notorious French prison camp in French Guiana. He escaped and later fought alongside General Custer at Little Big Horn. True to form, he survived.

Stephen Clarke

#64. 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

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

Suzanne Collins

#66. He could do this. He'd survived boot camp. He'd survived combat and the harsh weather of Afghanistan. He could survive broccoli. Probably.

Shannon Stacey

#67. 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

#68. You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

David Levithan

#69. 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

#70. The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

David Barton

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music

Haruki Murakami

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

Maria Semple

#77. Direct attacks were foolhardy. The circumspect survived. And the deceitful prevailed.

Robert Ferrigno

#78. Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.

John Bradshaw

#79. 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

#80. Having faced adversity and survived it, he's unlike others who haven't.

Peter Gray

#81. The unfortunate 8075 hadn't survived his assault, splintering apart, fragments of its casing skittering across the bench. The battery within had split along its plane, revealing something as out-of-place as a missile in a bathtub.

A. Ashley Straker

#82. 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

#83. The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.

Milton Friedman

#84. Here's a woman who had survived the centrifuge, the vomit comet, hard-landing drills and 10k runs. A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure while being spun around upside-down. But she was afraid of a tattoo needle.

Andy Weir

#85. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

Og Mandino

#86. Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

Christopher Hitchens

#87. We have survived the "Death of God" and the "Death of Man". We will surely survive "the Death of History" ... and the death of post-modernism.

Norman Davies

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

Kim Harrison