Top 100 Quotes About Survivors
#1. Writing from the perspective of women survivors of violence, Moore is at his most appealing; though his writing about sex and brutality can verge on the exploitative, he sometimes reveals an unexpected sympathy with dominated women.
Zoe Brigley
#2. I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.
Curtis LeMay
#3. I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.
Bob Feller
#4. Even for survivors, now, there is nothing but roles. Like a bizarre reversal of animals playing dead, we are expected to act alive when we are dead inside. There is nowhere for the truth of one's feelings.
Phyllis Edgerly Ring
#5. Within a couple of weeks even earthquake survivors return to their normal level of unfounded optimism.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#6. Only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.
John Boyne
#7. And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been able to tell you. It was as if those days in the forest, the escape to the city, had passed in a trance. The mind creates an alternative state.
Aminatta Forna
#8. By opening the door to my life, it is my hope and mission to shed light on the hidden wounds of abuse, to end the stigma and shame associated with abuse, and to show survivors true courage, strength, inspiration, and determination.
Erin Merryn
#9. There are all these people bragging about how they're survivors, as though that's something very special. But the only kind of person who can't say that is a corpse.
Kurt Vonnegut
#10. Damaged people were survivors, and they survived because they always put themselves first. Self-preservation demanded it.
Penelope Douglas
#11. The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.
James Lovelock
#13. Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.
George Ayittey
#14. The atomic bomb survivors ... cannot wait another 50 years. Their highest hope is to see the abolition of nuclear weapons within their own lifetime. It is a steep climb to this goal, but one from which we must never relent.
Iccho Itoh
#15. There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#16. There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.
Emma Sulkowicz
#17. Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.
Carrie Ryan
#18. For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
Earl A Grollman
#19. What's retaliate?" asked Aphasia.
"It means, kill most of the enemy, and let the survivors apologies.
Paul Cornell
#20. Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
Bear Grylls
#21. This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.
W.G. Sebald
#22. In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.
Mary Ritter Beard
#23. I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.
Jim Kaat
#24. I have to acknowledge that the sea is a cup of death, and the land is a stained altar stone. We the living are survivors huddled on flotsam, living on jetsam. We are escapees. We wake in terror, eat in hunger, sleep with a mouth full of blood.
Annie Dillard
#25. I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.
Christian Louboutin
#26. My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
Jenna Blum
#27. There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.
AnnaLynne McCord
#28. I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.
Christopher Plummer
#29. After the battle was finished and the enemy was set beyond the doors of stone, survivors found Lanre's body, cold and lifeless near the beast he had slain.
Patrick Rothfuss
#30. The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Jim Ramstad
#31. I think most survivors transfer the shame of their experience into their present-day healing and become ashamed of themselves for needing the time and support
Jeanne McElvaney
#32. It's all a matter of perspective. Here's mine: I've been called a lot of things, but what I really am is a survivor - and while there are more than a few stupid Sirens, there are zero stupid survivors.
Kami Garcia
#33. Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.
Regina Brett
#34. To move into restoration does not mean the abusers never did anything wrong. Moving forward is also not an indicator that their actions never harmed you. What restoration does is provide the ability for survivors to bring hope back into their lives; maybe for the first time.
Shannon Thomas
#35. The situation as well as them and had shifted her loyalties to the most likely survivors with the business-like efficiency of a bank teller making change.
Anonymous
#36. The more we lose, the more we become the survivors.
Carrie Ryan
#37. We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning. The sky is above us. The earth is below us. We can never be poor. ~ NanaAnna
Sister Souljah
#38. If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
Patrick Ness
#39. I'm surprised you can believe in God, after meeting so many evil people."
"How could I not," Leo asks, "after meeting so many survivors
Jodi Picoult
#40. No matter what we survivors like to tell ourselves about the afterlife, when someone dies, everything is over.
Jodi Picoult
#41. The core issue in traumatization is that survivors have been unable to realize fully what has happened to them and how it affects their lives and who they are. In other words, the inability to realize involves many ways of not knowing massive psychic trauma
Onno Van Der Hart
#42. History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.
Julian Barnes
#43. In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.
Margaret Mead
#44. Don't count on others for help. In the end each of us is in this alone. The survivors are those who know how to look out for themselves.
Drew Karpyshyn
#45. I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.
Richard Masur
#46. Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
John Quincy Adams
#47. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
Norman Finkelstein
#48. I understand well the peculiar guilt of tragedy's survivors.
Kate Morton
#49. I've been talking to people, and I've gone to hospitals, talked to survivors, to doctors, to caregivers. I just learned that there's really no one way for somebody to experience dealing with cancer.
Italia Ricci
#50. Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.
Laurence Gonzales
#51. Among all the world's large creatures, the only survivors of the human flood will be humans themselves, and the farmyard animals that serve as galley slaves in Noah's Ark.
Yuval Noah Harari
#52. Only a fool loves war," said Calvar, "or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.
David Gemmell
#53. We were all survivors - every last one of us who limped our way out to the sidewalks that afternoon and spit in Death's cold face.
Cat Winters
#54. The scrupulous survivors in life are the best counterweight to unscrupulous survivors.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#55. There are no winners in battle. Just survivors.
E.E. Knight
#56. The dead don't die. Death is something a living person suffers through, once the dead are gone from here. The departed don't know anything about dread, or longing, or the inevitable. They leave that to the survivors.
Scott Kelly
#57. Of all the subjects I have photographed, the most controversial and the one that has moved me the most has to be the prostitutes who are getting on in years. They are true survivors.
Maya Goded
#58. Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.
Earl A Grollman
#59. We the survivors are not the true witnesses. The true witnesses, those in possession of the unspeakable truth are the drowned, the dead, the disappeared.
Primo Levi
#60. People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.
Greg Louganis
#61. The dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors ...
Rachel Vincent
#62. You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?
Yann Martel
#63. Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.
David Wilkerson
#64. They were known to pillage and plumage leaving few survivors
Maia Starr
#65. But he drank a lot. When love dies, he told me, there are no survivors.
Eion Colfer
#66. I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.
Terry Pratchett
#67. We survivors face life's challenges with strength and courage, and defeat is never an option. We are insulated by the Grace of God, for we are His faithful.
Robert Palasciano
#68. This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable. It is long overdue that a day be dedicated to remembering and supporting the many victims and survivors of torture around the world.
Kofi Annan
#69. One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.
M.F.K. Fisher
#70. You see, 'The Look of Silence' is the first film ever made where survivors confront perpetrators who still hold a monopoly on power. It's normally never done because it is too dangerous.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#71. The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.
Martha Gellhorn
#72. Only survivors are allowed the luxury of sadness.
Mike Mullin
#73. That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the crags and crevices of a planet that may not be inhabited by anyone but us.
Michael Cunningham
#74. Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
Zainab Salbi
#75. If you want proof of what the country is really all about, just walk through the National September 11 Memorial Museum. Here it is, in the faces of the victims, in the stories of bravery, in the souls and memory of the survivors, the next of kin.
Mike Barnicle
#76. Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell ... Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.
Elie Wiesel
#77. We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.
James Mattis
#78. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
Bertrand Russell
#79. Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants.
Jon Krakauer
#80. On a sub, you know, there's no place for things to drain to. The survivors claimed that the blood was knee-deep all through the submarine.
Neal Stephenson
#82. People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.
Geraldine Ferraro
#83. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#85. Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.
Sue Grafton
#86. When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
Rita Mae Brown
#87. Being an entrepreneur is sexy ... for those who haven't done it. In reality it's gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt. Entrepreneurs are survivors.
Mark Suster
#88. So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.
Paul Fussell
#89. !!!!!!!!!!NO TRESPASSING!!!!!!!!!!
All trespassers will be shot on sight. All survivors will be shot again.
SAS Institute
#90. Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools
Jeaniene Frost
#91. The world doesn't end, Claire. In the morning, the survivors start to build again. It's way of things. The human way.
Rachel Caine
#92. A lady is never truly embarrassed. And if she is, a lady is never gauche enough to leave survivors.
Seanan McGuire
#93. He and I had always felt as if we were fellow survivors from some vanishing age or land, in the gibbering swamp of mediocrity around us.
Ayn Rand
#94. Why must we be left, the survivors picking among the flotsam, among the small, unnoticed, unvalued clutter that was all that remained when they vanished, that only catastrophe made notable?
Marilynne Robinson
#96. Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.
Anthony Marra
#97. It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
Johan Huizinga
#98. Things had gone badly at Hell House, although not quite as horribly as the '31 investigation. At least this time there were survivors, if you wanted to call being reduced to catatonia and raving lunacy 'surviving'.
Nancy A. Collins
#99. I like drama. My first movie that I did, 'Soul Survivors', was a drama, and I'm just drawn to that; that's sort of my forte.
Melissa Sagemiller
#100. In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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