Survival is your strength not your shame. — T. S. Eliot
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida
Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim. — Patricia Buckley
The strong survive, but the courageous triumph. — Michael Scott
I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life. — Marilyn Buck
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free. — Judith Lewis Herman
You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift. — Carrie Fisher
The art of survival is a story that never ends. — Christian Bale
Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. — Martha Gellhorn
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant. — Maya Angelou
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. — Josephine Hart
How we survive, is what makes us who we are. — Tim McIlrath
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. — Charles Darwin
Short Survivor Quotes
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors. — Ernest Hemingway
The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead. — Nikita Khrushchev
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it. — Samuel Johnson
Cancer is a word, not a sentence. — John Diamond
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. — Frank Gifford
There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive. — Marcus Luttrell
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. — Petrarch
Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac. — Annie Dillard
Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards. — Seal
Survivor Image Quotes
Lone Survivor Quotes
He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers. — Robert Cormier
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. — John Le Carr
Normally, eat any our caterer makes these wonderful chocolate chip cookies for lunch. It was my one treat of the day, after getting beat up on the mountain while shooting Lone Survivor. I'd eat a couple cookies and then take a 15-minute nap on the top of the mountain. — Mark Wahlberg
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
Domestic Violence Survivor Quotes
My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending. — Hilda Solis
Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear. — Laura Davies
...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood? — Nicole Krauss
I am a survivor of domestic violence. — Brooke Axtell
To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job, to go to court, to see a doctor or to find a safe place to live. — Lucille Roybal-Allard
Cancer Survivor Quotes
Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer. — Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.
I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups. — Erika Slezak
My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30. — Kate Walsh
Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds. — Rachel Grady
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
My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life. — Olivia Newton-John
Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans. — Edie Falco
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. — Harold Pinter
I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family. — Grete Waitz
I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant. — Grete Waitz
I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies! — Jane Wiedlin
I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches. — Diahann Carroll
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell. — Lance Armstrong
I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer. — Mary Ann Mobley
Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer. — Marla Sokoloff
And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition. — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer. — Lynn Redgrave
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms. — Cynthia Nixon
I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me. — Christina Applegate
Strong Survive Quotes
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive. — John F. Kennedy
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. — Pauline Hanson
It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive. — Stephenie Meyer
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. — Nicholas Sparks
Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons. — Paul Bloom
People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive. — Lisa See
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions. — Dave Smalley
The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive. — Ratan Tata
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. — J. C. Watts
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. — Isabel Allende
I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how — Elie Wiesel
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
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
I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors. — Curtis LeMay
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
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event. — Robert M. Pirsig
As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward. — Dan Gillerman
If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier? — Scott Pelley
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. — Ellen Tauscher
Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor. — Craig Rosebraugh
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
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too. — Michelle Pfeiffer
Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors. — Bernie Siegel
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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 by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking all the survivors into slavery, where they duly perished, so that today not a trace remains of what was previously a community with dominion over an area of some thirty leagues. — Bartolome de las Casas
The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive. — Charles Fort
Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear. — Ani Difranco
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead. — Chuck Palahniuk
It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer. — Tori Amos
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.
I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash. — Keith Moon
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