Top 100 Quotes About Surviving
#1. I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
Anne Tyler
#2. Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and a pile of plastic garbage bags before you smash onto the pavement, you've got a pretty good chance of surviving.
Patricia Gaffney
#4. Over the years, I've come to recognize that democratization in Ethiopia is not just a matter of choice. It's a matter of national survival. I am deeply convinced that we either democratize and have a good chance of surviving, or if we fail to do so, we disintegrate.
Meles Zenawi
#5. When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.
Fred Durst
#6. I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.
Barry Eisler
#7. The right thing is a luxury for rich and sheltered people. For the rest of us, the only right thing is staying out of trouble and surviving as best we can.
Susan Ee
#8. Surviving means being born over and over.
Erica Jong
#9. A sense of humor is a requisite to surviving in our demanding world
Janette Oke
#10. In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.
Alberto Manguel
#11. For those gamblers who know the secret to surviving Is knowing what to throw away And knowing what to keep
Karina Halle
#12. Up until today she'd felt as if she was surviving. Now she felt as though she was living.
Everything was different.
Sarah Morgan
#13. Comics who grew up surviving their childhood by being able to be the first one to make the joke about their weight or their hairy arms - like me - whatever they're insecure about, whatever they're apologizing for, that becomes their strength.
Sarah Silverman
#14. There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.
Henry Petroski
#15. Will I ever again doubt that miracles exist? Not after giving birth to my daughter at 47 without fertility treatments, after surviving breast cancer.
Susan McBride
#16. I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
Russell Means
#17. My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.
Ai Weiwei
#18. Laugh at yourself. It's the single most important aspect of surviving this crazy business. And that's from the man that gave Cap[tain America] boobs.
Rob Liefeld
#19. Achieving what I set out to do: to feel that I was instrumental in starting a great new movement which could not only change the course of things for Humanity and the rest of Creation, but alter Man's expectation of surviving for much longer on this planet.
Donald Watson
#20. One way of surviving heartache is to stay busy. Making something right in at least one tiny corner of the vast house of wrongs...
Barbara Kingsolver
#21. Father's always saying that South Africa must be one of the best countries in the world for surviving a zombie apocalypse,' Megan says seriously. 'It's full of security estates and high fences.
Lily Herne
#22. If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.
Evelyn Waugh
#23. Stand up! Don't ever give up on this bitchy life.
Feel afraid is okay, but don't avoid competition.
You've done that thing even since you're a sperm.
You accept this and you are the surviving winner.
Toba Beta
#24. I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.
Meredith Brooks
#25. The hardest part isn't dying; it's surviving.
Skye Warren
#26. Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mother's loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.
Mariska Hargitay
#28. Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.
Andy Grove
#29. The purpose of our activities on earth must go beyond bread and butter or merely surviving.
Sunday Adelaja
#31. One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.
Richard Leakey
#32. No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.
Art Spiegelman
#33. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.
Jennifer DeLucy
#34. Bantu Philosophy: People cling to life and are not yet at the stage where they wil fight for the quality of that life. They feel as long as they are surviving, that is enough.
Michela Wrong
#35. Pragmatists are sometimes more prone to illusion than dreamers; when they fall for something, they fall hard, not knowing how to protect themselves, while we dreamers are more practiced in surviving the disillusionment that follows when we wake up from our dreams.
Azar Nafisi
#36. If we want to live consciously, if we want to enjoy our life and not spend it simply completing the task of surviving, each of us must find answers to the questions concerning our destiny
Sunday Adelaja
#37. one out of every three surviving human beings on Earth is one of them.
Rick Yancey
#38. I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#39. Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.
Thomas Campbell
#40. What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an authoritarian monarchy.
Robert Lacey
#41. The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
Samuel Davies
#42. My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.
Denis Leary
#43. Ultimately, culture, secular and otherwise, is a collection of survival strategies. The things that look like decoration - poetry, novels, music, dancing - if you strip away all the layers, are mechanisms for coping, surviving, understanding.
Ben Fountain
#44. Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
Jack London
#45. Live what you love and what you love will fill your life.
Jodi Livon
#46. Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies.
Christina Engela
#47. My mother supported my every artistic ambition. I don't wonder why. I'm beyond grateful. But when I think of my grandparents barely surviving the war, I feel so pampered. What an indulgence to be an artist. So this is it, this is all I can offer, to the living and to the dead.
Leela Corman
#48. Some have said I should demand that the surviving members of Unit 731 be brought to justice. But what does that mean? I am no longer a child. I do not want to see trials, parades, spectacles. The law does not give you real justice.
Ken Liu
#49. Can't abide adventure. 'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck.
Jeffery Russell
#50. The more they evolved from monsters into angsty, sexy superheroes, the more the odds of a human being surviving an encounter with an angry vampire shrank to nothing.
Jim C. Hines
#51. My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. The history of life is a story of massive removal followed by differentiation within a few surviving stocks, not the conventional tale of steadily increasing excellence, complexity, and diversity.
Stephen Jay Gould
#53. I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
Lorna Luft
#54. The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.
Karl Abraham
#55. There is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be NATURALLY SELECTED.
Charles Darwin
#56. I felt torn
Between living and dying
Between sleeping and surviving.
Stacy Morris
#57. You know the difference between Hell's fury and a scorned woman? If you keep your wits about you, you might have a chance of surviving Hell in one piece.
Joshua Bader
#58. If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.
Satya Nadella
#59. It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just surviving is a major thing. I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect.
Rod Serling
#60. Not every day is a parade with fireworks, but every breath counts. Life is incredibly fucking hard, rarely fair, and always unpredictable. Most days, surviving is as good as it gets.
Jewel E. Ann
#61. No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#62. It was a ridiculous sequence of events that led to me almost dying, and an even more ridiculous sequence that led to me surviving.
Andy Weir
#63. After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems - and of Katia Mann's extremely sympathetic response to them
Philip Kitcher
#64. Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well
here is the truth
you have to talk yourself out of it.
Chris Cleave
#65. Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.
Gunnar Myrdal
#66. Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why
Kamand Kojouri
#67. How did you ask a man, "Oh, by the way, did you ask me to marry you the other day or were you merely suggesting I become your mistress?" Formality was the key to surviving this, she hoped.
Anne Gracie
#68. Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building's foundations are a bit more substantial than mine.
Gough Whitlam
#69. You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.
Edna Buchanan
#70. So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.
Rick Riordan
#71. When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism.
Tim Cahill
#72. I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#73. Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.
Rafael Sabatini
#74. And what is the bloodydamn point of surviving in this cold world if I run from the only warmth it has to offer?
Pierce Brown
#75. The thing about surviving something truly tragic is that it changes your expectations forever. You make do with very little. You're grateful for crumbs.
Asher
Katy Regnery
#76. The secret to surviving heartbreak is finding more pressing drama.
Diana Peterfreund
#77. We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!
Joel Greenblatt
#79. Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad.
Martha Gellhorn
#80. I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you're okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you're here, you're surviving; this moment is okay.
Martha Beck
#81. She slid of out his grasp. "If we live through tomorrow, you'll get the rest."
He didn't know whether to laugh or roar. "Are you trying to bribe me into surviving?
Sarah J. Maas
#82. Sometimes, maybe ... sometimes there's no right or wrong. Sometimes there's just ... surviving.
Jasinda Wilder
#83. Justice might well prevail in the end, but ordinary people like me had no guarantee of surviving that long. We might get killed on the whim of some serial killer first.
Kouhei Kadono
#84. Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.
Tim Winton
#85. I don't know that dancing fixes anything. I don't feel magically happy because of it. My problems don't disappear when the music ends. But I understand life better when I dance, and understanding is half the fight of surviving.
Cora Carmack
#87. For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent.
Henry David Thoreau
#88. Working to establish a more comfortable style of survival has grown to feel complete in and of itself as a reason to live, and we've gradually, methodically, forgotten our original question ... We've forgotten that we still don't know what we're surviving for.
James Redfield
#89. In a Sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are Surviving each and every Active Time-Point in this Timeline.......
Aldrin Mathew
#90. 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
#92. When we succeed in surviving strong emotions, we experience a more solid peace of mind.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#93. I prefer the word thriver, because I'm not just surviving, I'm thriving,
Laurell K. Hamilton
#94. Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.
Joan Rivers
#96. Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete
Kjiva
#97. Life isn't love, destiny, rainbows, and butterflies. Life is shit. It's painful and hard. It's surviving when you want to give up." "No,
Ellie Wade
#98. Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn't make sense to others, but it's not for them. It's what keeps you together, what keeps you going.
Alyse M. Gardner
#99. 'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.
Orson Scott Card
#100. Most breakups are awful. But with compassion, attention, introspection, and intention they can become transforming, bringing you closer to alignment with your true self while preparing you for the next great adventure.
Randy Siegel
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