Top 100 Quotes About Survivors
#1. An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".
Sebastian Junger
#2. Happiness is your inherent nature. In the hustle and bustle of life, you have forgotten a part of yourself, and looking for it outside. Fill this void with happiness that is sustainable, not transitory; that illuminates your life and that of others, that is life giving and so natural.
Sanchita Pandey
#3. Some people get to live life. Some people survive it. We're survivors. We can carve out our piece of happy, and, I swear to God, baby, right now, you got my vow, for you and for me, the rest of our lives, I'll bust my ass to carve our piece of happy.
Kristen Ashley
#4. 54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors.
Roberto Bolano
#5. Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.
Robert Graves
#6. I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.
Alexandra Bracken
#7. I think you should leave [the scar]. [...] It's not as bad as you think. It will look better once it is healed. And besides, you already have a classical beauty. This gives you a romantic beauty as well.
April Adams
#8. A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Thomas Mann
#9. The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.
A.E. Samaan
#10. Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.
Dana Gould
#11. Why would you do that for me?" Leesha asked.
Rojer smiled, taking her hand in his crippled one. "We're survivors, aren't we?" he asked. "Someone once told me that survivors have to look out for one another.
Peter V. Brett
#12. Those who participate in a genocide as well as those who merely look away rarely volunteer much in the way of anecdote or observation. Same with the heroic and the righteous. Usually it's only the survivors who speak-and often they don't want to talk much about it either. p. 75
Chris Bohjalian
#13. But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you ... more proud ...
Anna Akhmatova
#14. Certainly 'Survivors,' when we put that series out, the second series dipped below 5 million for one of the episodes - all of a sudden, there's no recommission, and I think that's dreadful.
Max Beesley
#15. Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.
Saib Tabrizi
#16. Newsflash for any of the current, past or future Survivors out there ... when you contemplate strategizing about the other team, the best idea is to shut up and keep it to yourself. You're welcome; this bill is in the mail.
Jenna Morasca
#17. Let's just day love isn't easy. even when you're the sole survivors of a plane crash and you have the hots for each other.
Rebecca Serle
#18. In Naples, there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they'd been, or have a normal life. And then there were other ones who you though, maybe they will. What I'm saying is, we're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are. Okay?
Jennifer Egan
#19. While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.
Lee Ann Hoff
#20. Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.
Chuck Palahniuk
#21. I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.
Marion Cotillard
#22. The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors.
Shannon O'Brien
#23. As you may already know, post-traumatic stress disorder is extremely complex. Each client has a unique, perhaps virtually unbelievable, set of experiences, and an almost equally set of reactions to those experiences.
Aphrodite Matsakis
#24. Leaving millions dead or dying in your wake." The Unicorn nodded. "Billions, if all goes well. The survivors will need a leader.
Bryan Fields
#25. If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.
Seth Godin
#26. Abuse is a parasite that feeds off hate and shame, growing in size and strength with silence.
Nikki Sex
#27. 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
#28. Survivors. What better word for people who made it out of this place alive?" -Alex
Francesca Zappia
#29. The culture and heritage should stay intact and be maintained as it provides the individuals with some degree of resiliency. The effects of the trauma is what should be focused on and treated. Improving the quality of life for survivors is the focus of treatment. It is not to erase the past.
Thomas Hodge
#30. Same. I don't like to think I might have ended up in Plumber's gang, but given the alternative..."
I raised both eyebrows. "Yeah. Drug-dealers or super-powered psychopaths? Choices, choices.
Violet Cross
#31. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.
Markus Zusak
#32. The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.
Rami Ollaik
#33. There's an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she's older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn't gone through what I've gone through.
Zoe Cruz
#34. Christy isn't a case, he's a person.
C. Kennedy
#35. We were singing 'We Are the Champions' for the twentieth time or so," she said from the hospital in Bowling Green, where most of the survivors were taken.
Stephen King
#36. It is through that brokenness that we find courage and strength. It is what empowers us to do great things.
K.S. Ruff
#37. Sometimes we need to feel bad to know what it's like to feel good ...
Nitra Gipson
#38. That was one thing the Divines had taught us: treasure every precious moment. Do the things you've always dreamed of doing. Spend as much time as you can with the ones you love, because tomorrow you might not get the chance.
Violet Cross
#39. Instead I watched Layla as she bolted over the battered desk, heading for the door Charlotte and Kate had just disappeared through. Good girl.
The thought screeched to a halt as I watched her run straight past it.
Violet Cross
#40. So many times after a catastrophe like 9/11, Estonia in Sweden, the Holocaust or whatever, we are so fond of lifting up the hero examples, but actually 99 percent of survivors have done something that they feel very guilty about.
Ruben Ostlund
#41. Like most cancer survivors, lived with uncertainty.
John Green
#42. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers ... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#43. Come on, Haymitch. Nobody decent ever wins the Games ... Nobody ever wins the Games, period. There are survivors ... there's no winners.
Suzanne Collins
#44. This world isn't a fair place, because we never know how much time we've really got.
Zoe Cruz
#45. Always know there are friends somewhere rooting for you. There are people you don't know, always praying for you and lifting you before God. - Jenee, from "To the Survivors".
Robert Uttaro
#46. Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55
Marlene Steinberg
#47. The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
Jonathan Sacks
#48. As if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off.
Christopher Moore
#49. Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors.
Robert Anton Wilson
#50. The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#51. I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.
Maureen Brady
#52. Combat is fast, unfair, cruel, and dirty. It is meant to be that way so that the terrible experience is branded into the memory of those who are fortunate enough to survive. It is up to those survivors to ensure that the experience is recorded and passed along to those who just might want to try it.
Bruce H. Norton
#53. Scars are badges of strength and courage. They tell the story of what we have endured. Only survivors wear them.
Kaki Warner
#55. We're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are.
Jennifer Egan
#56. From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings.
Alex Berenson
#57. Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors!
Kurt Vonnegut
#58. Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you.
Sanchita Pandey
#59. The view wasn't exactly breath-taking. Kind of boring actually. Unless, of course, you had a rare, strong appreciation for deserts, in which case it was downright mind blowing.
Violet Cross
#60. If I were free, as a physician, to say what I pleased, I would tell every abused person I see that there is an entire world out there that is nothing like the one you're living. Go discover it.
C. Kennedy
#61. Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.
Kerry Washington
#62. If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped - unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family.
Phil Klay
#63. Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
John Le Carre
#65. People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, there's nothing that's come and tried to dislodge us. We just go about our business.
Dave Mason
#66. It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
Patsy Asuncion
#67. Clouds of confusion
rolled into illusion
He veils perversion
forcing her coercion
Her body he takes
while she flies away
unbelievable, she's invisible
Diana Rasmussen
#68. While the financial crisis destroyed careers and reputations, and left many more bruised and battered, it also left the survivors with a genuine sense of invulnerability at having made it back from the brink. Still missing in the current environment is a genuine sense of humility.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#69. Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.
Patricia Moyes
#70. All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.
Heyward Bruce Ewart III
#71. Survivors are willing to make sacrifices.
Brent Weeks
#72. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
#73. I wasn't the kind of girl who liked to wait around to be rescued.
Violet Cross
#74. Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#75. Crows are the world's great survivors. They are capable of living at any height and in any climate; as much at home in the back streets of Delhi as on the heights of Tungnath. Another
Ruskin Bond
#76. I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.
Steven Spielberg
#77. I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.
Maureen Brady
#78. Something deep inside of me speaks with the voice of the psycho: For who could ever love a beast?
Zoe Cruz
#79. Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined manner to things like an auditory, visual or tactile signal or perform a specific set of actions according to a date and/or time.
Alison Miller
#80. Jesus, Lacey. You just scared me half to death."
I forced a laugh. "Only half? Damn.
Violet Cross
#81. > ... all I could think was what hell it is for the survivors when death slams into life without warning and smashes every fixed point on the emotional map.
Susan Howatch
#82. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.
Patrick Ness
#83. Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.
C. Kennedy
#84. My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.
Max Bemis
#85. I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.
Ralph Webster
#86. [T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think what bothers me most is that it offers to the families of the victims and the survivors a false sense of closure.
Richard Brown
#87. Also, look for "floating alters." These are not deliberately created parts of the system, but alters that were accidentally split off at the same time as others.
Alison Miller
#88. The whole world always burns," said Loaf. "Or it floods. Or some insect eats the crop and you starve. Or a disease ravages the wallfold, killing nine out of ten, and the survivors eat the dead. Every baby you have dies eventually, no matter what you do. Yet we have babies and we try to go on.
Orson Scott Card
#89. Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
Ernest Hemingway,
#90. I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.
Bob Feller
#91. Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength.
Lisa Gardner
#92. I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.
Laurie Holden
#93. God can never be found guilty of a natural catastrophe as long as survivors keep testifying that he was with them the whole time.
Daniel Ramalho
#94. Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else.
Dean Koontz
#95. The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner
#96. Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.
Robert Fulghum
#98. The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.
Janine Benyus
#99. He'd expected more complaints, but even Wylan had simply put his head down and walked. They're all survivors, Matthias understood. They adapt.
Leigh Bardugo
#100. One must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is. (Page 106)
Karen Marie Moning
