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Survival Quotes

Survival Quotes

Last updated: October 18, 2023

29 Survival Quotes organized by Most Popular

“Scars aren’t there to loudly announce, ‘I’ve been through more!’ But rather, they quietly whisper, ‘You survived.”
— Marina Miller, We Will Try Again Tomorrow, And Every Day After That
Tagged: Scars, Past, Your Past, Histroy, Past Pain, Survival, Moving Forward
“To stay alive, you need to fight. It's as simple as that.”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Fight, Survival, Life
“...because once you've got one scar on your face or your heart, its only a matter of time before someone gives you another - and another - until a day doesn't go by when you aren't being bashed senseless, nor a town that you haven't been run out of, and you get to be such a goddamn mess that finally it doesn't feel right unless you're getting the Christ beaten out of you - and within a year of that first damming fall, those first down borne fists, your first run out, you wind up with flies buzzing around your eyes, back at the same place, the same town, deader than when you left, bobbing around in the swill - a dirty deadbeat whore in a roadside ditch. But a little part of you doesn't die. A little part of you lives on. And you make an orphan of that corrupt and contemptible part, dumping it right smack in the laps of the ones who first robbed you of your sweetness, for it is the wicked fruit of their crimes, it is their blood, their sin, it belongs there, this child of blood, this spawn of sin..”
— Nick Cave, And The Ass Saw The Angel
Tagged: Growing Pains, Musician, Music, Writers, Blood, Childhood, Drama, Surrender, Survival
“I could be healed by the sheer courage of continuing to live. I could heal myself.”
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)
Tagged: perseverance, Inspirational, Healing, Life, Survival
“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”
— Sherman Alexie, Native Writers Voices of Power
Tagged: Reading, Books, Survival
“You have taken your place in the long line of those before you whose continued survival in the face of overwhelming threats should inspire you every day of your lives -- every day. I’m talking about many of your ancestors who came together to lead a revolt, risking their lives to preserve their traditions.”
— Michelle Obama, Santa Fe Indian School Graduation Speech
Tagged: Survival, inspiration, Preservation
“There is life after survival.”
— Buddy Wakefield, Buddy Wakefield - Human The Death Dance
Tagged: Survival, Depression, Suffering, Pain, Getting Better, Life, Moving Forward
“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.”
— Stephen Hawking, Information, Communication, and Space Technology By Mohammad Razani
Tagged: humanity, Survival, Space
“I need you as the one luminous point in my madness.”
— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion
Tagged: Madness, Luminous, Need, Desire, Survival
“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”
— Stephen Hawking, Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies
Tagged: Intelligence, Survival, Value
“If I survived, it must be for some reason. I must do something with my life. It is too serious to play games with anymore, because in my place, someone else could have been saved. And so I speak for that person. On the other hand, I know I cannot.”
— Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel quotes on survival, spirituality and humanity
Tagged: Survival, humanity, Elie Wiesel Quotes, Elie Wiesel
“The grief. It came crashing in like a tidal wave. The very thought of it still sends a shiver down my spine: makes me wince a little. The weight of it. Those vacant, anguished expressions, and the way we nestled into each other, softly, and the endless cups of too-strong tea that were made by distracted mothers, because sometimes, there is so little else to do. The nights we just clung to each other, licking the salt of our eyes from our lips, and the nights we walked the streets he once did beneath summer skies, stumbling into each other, laughing, because looking back was the only way to survive in the heat of it, and looking forward was.

Just.
Impossible.”
— Kathy Brown, I Remember Him In The August Sun
Tagged: Grief, Loss, Losing A Loved One, Dealing With Death, Understanding Death, Pain, Survival, Moving On, After Death
“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Depression, Survival, Suffering
“Our scars make us know that our past was real.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Past, Healing, Survival, Moving Forward
“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.”
— Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen (A Black cat book)
Tagged: Suffering, Survival, Growing Pains, strength, Life
“I think the media is really comfortable reading about trans women of color as victims after they die, but if we have the audacity to survive, we are immediately criminalized; that is what the system does.”
— Laverne Cox, Laverne Cox: Transforming Hollywood
Tagged: Trans WOC, Survival, Criminalization
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Tagged: Bravery, Courage, Depression, Life, Growing Pains, Survival, Tired, Routine
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
— S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
Tagged: Lies, pretending, Survival
“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
— George R.R. Martin, A Game Of Thrones
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Survival, pack, Friends, Alone
“You never need to apologize for how you chose to survive.”
— Clementine Von Radics, Mouthful Of Forevers
Tagged: Survival, Life, Inspirational, strength, Growing Pains, perseverance
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.”
— Harlan Ellison, Paingod: And Other Delusions
Tagged: Pain, Survival, Love, beauty, Sadness, Happiness
“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”
— Virginia Satir, The Satir Model: Family Therapy and Beyond
Tagged: Family, Survival, therapy, Psychologists, hugs, Love, Growth, Positivity
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”
— Vicki Harrison, 21 Absolutely Heartwrenching Quotes On Loss And Grief
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Ocean, Overwhelming, Scared, Survival
“Surviving your 20s is sometimes nothing more glamorous than just holding on for dear life on the back of an inner tube like a kid being whipped around by a speedboat…And your only choice of survival is to just let go.”
— Paul Angone, 101 Secrets For Your Twenties
Tagged: Twenties, 20s, Survival, Growing Up
“You tilt your head back. You breathe. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. And you teach your sons and daughters there are sharks in the water. But the only way to survive is to breathe deep and dive.”
— Andrea Gibson, via Tumblr
Tagged: Brokenness, Love, Moving On, Letting Go, Broken Heart, My Favorites, Survival, Finding Strength
“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Depression, Survival, humans
“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”
— Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
Tagged: Depression, coping, Survival
“Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it.”
— Keary Taylor, What I Didn't Say
Tagged: Depression, Change, Survival
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, Survival, Suffering