Top 100 Survive The Quotes
#1. I start to move through the flat, but I can't believe I'm here. I don't know how to survive the hours until I can sleep.
Flynn Berry
#2. Somehow, that wasn't any more comforting than knowing Dr. C would kill King if I didn't survive the night.
Ben Reeder
#3. By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#4. Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
Oscar Niemeyer
#5. We could survive the worst, doesn't it stand to reason we should be able to bear the best?
V.C. Andrews
#6. My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.
Emir Kusturica
#7. Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.
Larry Kersten
#8. I don't even want to try to understand it, and so begin to mistake it for something else after that, paling shadows of this original feeling, something inaudibly delicate that would not survive the passage into speech.
Karen Russell
#9. I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.
Ron Carlson
#10. Only a Christian culture could have produced a Voltaire or a Nietzsche. I do not believe that the culture of Europe could survive the complete disappearance of the Christian Faith.
Norman Davies
#11. There's something about Twitch.
He's just ... raw.
Everything about him is raw. And gritty. And unbound.
He's a raging fire. And I'm a fragile moth fluttering into the flame. Sooner or later, I'm going to get burned. I know this.
Will I even survive the heat?
Belle Aurora
#12. to help our ancestors survive, the brain evolved a negativity bias that makes it like Velcro for bad experiences but Teflon for good ones.
Rick Hanson
#13. You need to be strong to survive the labor and to make us greater. We fatten hogs, not because it pleases us but because we need hogs to survive. But we can't have you too clever. We can't have you so fit you outrun us." She
Colson Whitehead
#14. Never assume you can survive the future because you've survived the past. Everyone thinks that, and they've all been wrong eventually.
Daniel Abraham
#15. Slowly, my feelings started to shrivel up. The few that managed to survive the constant beatings staggered around like wounded baby deer, just biding their time until they could die and join all the other carcasses strewn across the wasteland of my soul.
Allie Brosh
#16. Sometimes the spirit of a man isn't strong enough to survive the ghosts of his past
Colleen Hoover
#17. It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.
Hannah Arendt
#18. Loss pushes us to difficult places where we have not been before. We often question whether or not we have the courage and stamina to survive the pain. However, we often are given gifts that tell us that we are not alone and that we can withstand the journey.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#19. You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
#20. Someday you might not thank me. Someday you may not survive. - The Man in Black
Donna Galanti
#21. Memories is all that you have, which help you survive the storms and struggles of your daily life after you lose someone!
Nikita Dudani
#22. Either way, what has happened, has happened, what will be, will be. I just don't know how it will end, or whether i will survive the journey.
Indigo Bloome
#23. There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
Pat Conroy
#24. If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.
Bruce Chatwin
#25. Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man.
Hannah Arendt
#26. I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.
Janet Morris
#27. The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.
Carl F. H. Henry
#28. For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
George A. Romero
#29. To survive the neighborhoods and shield my body, I learned another language consisting of a basic complement of head nods and handshakes. I memorized a list of prohibited blocks.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#30. People without hope do not write novels ... [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won't survive the ordeal.
Flannery O'Connor
#31. I was troubled by the presence of a shoe museum because it forced me to ask a very burning question: would my body be able to physically survive the amount of dope I would need to smoke in order to visit a shoeseum?
Arj Barker
#32. Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
Don DeLillo
#33. The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Angela Davis
#35. Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.
Patricia McCormick
#36. [It is nice] to explore someone's will to survive, the ferocity of loyalty, how far you would go to protect the ones you love ... I believe women have more power than we give ourselves credit for ... We have been known to lift cars off of babies! That's incredible.
Katie Aselton
#37. Things do not always work out as we have planned, do they? Sometimes the hardest thing is not to just survive the grief, but to step around it and move on. It helps if your suitcases are not so full.
Karen White
#39. You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.
Paul Di Filippo
#40. Born for the blue skies,
We'll survive the rain.
Born for the sunrise,
We'll survive the pain.
Switchfoot
#41. This was the hubris of mankind, to rally in the face of overwhelming odds, to thread the needle and climb the mountain and survive the storm. He
Noah Hawley
#42. The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause budget deficits to soar. The U.S. dollar, which has become a mere corollary of government finance, is likely to survive the soaring deficits.
Hans F. Sennholz
#43. Strength is nothing more than enduring life - to be able to survive the heartaches and agonies we go through with our heads held high. Sometimes just walking through adversity to get to the other side is a sign of strength.
Sylvia Browne
#44. As rain began to fall, Aldric worried the old machines would not be able to survive the weather. "Hand me that oil can!" he shouted to Siomon.
Magic machines need oil?" asked Simon.
Of course they need oil. They're not perfect.
Jason Hightman
#45. Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
Ellen Glasgow
#46. The sustainable alternative is one in which smaller and smaller regions produce more and more of the goods they need closer to where they are consumed. These economies will contribute little to the greenhouse effect and will survive the exhaustion of oil.
John B. Cobb
#47. Life isn't about how you survive the storm, but rather how you dance in the rain.
K. Bromberg
#48. Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
Harrison Ford
#49. Did you know that at some point, a mama eagle pushes her babies out of the nest? She shoves them right out, and they have to fly to survive the fall." "And if they don't fly?" "I guess they don't buy her a Mother's Day present.
Jenny B. Jones
#50. It gave him the same odd sense of dislocation, though; that sense of losing some valuable part of himself that could not survive the passage back to daily life. Each time, the passage became more difficult.
Diana Gabaldon
#51. In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.
Derek Ibbotson
#52. Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.
Michael Scott
#53. Well, we'll survive, the Light willing." Some grinned and added, "And if the Light doesn't will, we'll still survive.
Robert Jordan
#54. Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.
Jane Roberts
#55. 1. "It is what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us"
2. (regarding friends) "cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest"
3. "oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty
Beth Hoffman
#56. Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. If the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? Megan.
Nicholas Sparks
#58. It must be frustrating to survive the gauntlet that is our western medical schooling system only to one day come to the realization that you have been taught only to manage illness and disease instead of curing it.
Gary Hopkins
#59. And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.
Shelley Duvall
#60. I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.
Natalie Cole
#61. To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out.
Eliot Spitzer
#62. You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.
Hope Solo
#63. To survive, the weak must feed on the hearts of the strong.
Dee Brown
#64. Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.
Frederick Lenz
#65. Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#66. To me, I see scars of courage. Inflicting them gave him the strength to survive the pain that's plagued him all his life. I'm grateful to every one of them because he's still here, with me.
Nicola Haken
#67. The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis Bacon
#68. A relationship cannot survive the test of time without trust.
Gabrielle Dennis
#69. Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.
Rachel Held Evans
#70. Life isn't how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.
Adam Young
#71. When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness,
there are three things that can show you the way:
instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation,
creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.
Toba Beta
#72. A man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks water from the springs of the bed.
Kurt Vonnegut
#73. That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
Ben Hecht
#74. Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.
Harold Brodkey
#75. Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
Ben Harper
#76. He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.
Robert E. Sherwood
#77. Preparing to survive a typical day of being Digby's friend wasn't that different from preparing to survive the apocalypse.
Stephanie Tromly
#78. What happens if the world we know changes today? Can we facebooking, tweeting, texting, shallow-thinking humans survive the slightest upheavel in our lives?
T.I. Wade
#79. The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
Agnes Repplier
#80. The harder the bargain men must strike with nature to survive, the more rules they're likely to have amongst themselves too keep them all in order
Angela Carter
#81. Happy endings are for people that can't survive the alternative. What a bunch of wimps.
S.L.J. Shortt
#82. To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.
Karl Hess
#83. Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a a lot of people do, out of relief that their children have been spared for another year. But at least two families will pull their shutters, lock their doors, and try to figure out how they will survive the painful weeks to come.
Suzanne Collins
#84. So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money.
Richard Branson
#85. I'd done my practicum in one of the city's biggest shelters, witnessing the kinds of trauma no human would survive. The one lesson in all that? Animals feel. They're just as sensitive as we are, maybe more.
Clea Simon
#86. We learn and grow and become stronger as we face and survive the trials through which we must pass.
Thomas S. Monson
#87. When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
Viktor E. Frankl
#88. Villains are not born - they are made. And in the case of a Villainess, she is crafted and carved out of the fires of a broken heart and God help the man who thinks to trespass, bruise her further and then survive the encounter.
Renee Bernard
#89. discursive regimes of the late eighteenth century drew the figure of man into the sand, and even if he manages to survive the etching, typing, and storing of the late nineteenth-century analog media, he is certain to disappear with the compression of that sand into silicon.
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
#90. I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
Paul Mooney
#91. Love is like a thief, it robs you of all thought and logic, and all you have left is a heart that you can only pray is strong enough to survive the rest.
Karina Halle
#92. And I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
Patrick Ness
#93. China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#94. A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.
Paul Bloom
#95. You realize the importance of what you have when you survive the realization of what you don't.
Jacelyn Rye
#96. She understood very clearly why people go mad. Sometimes it is the only way to survive the unbearable when all other flight has been cut off. When the body cannot remove itself and emotions cannot be deadened, then the mind simply refuses to accept reality.
Anne Perry
#97. For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment? That we survive the shock at all is only possible because the past shelters us on one side and the future on another.
Virginia Woolf
#98. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
Studs Terkel
#99. The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? - Because one did survive the wreck.
Herman Melville
#100. Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.
Charles Spurgeon
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