Quotes About Survival

The bottom line, as Raul Hilberg put it, was that most people thought that, even if Jews shouldn't be killed, they weren't worth saving.

I had no idea that the simple act of running a sharp blade across my wrist would change everything so completely. I wasn't after happiness anymore. I just wanted to survive.

Noam wouldn't die. He couldn't. Dara wouldn't let him.

Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.

Music and singing keeps us alive, give us hope. If we can feel, we know we can live.

How do you know you've made a great work of art? A great work of art is something as real as reality itself, and sometimes even more real than the real. Long after this war is forgotten, when its existence is a paragraph in a schoolbook students won't even bother to read, and everyone who survived it is dead, their bodies dust, their memories atoms, their emotions no longer in motion, this work of art will still shine so brightly it will not just be about the war but it will be the war.

Really ingenious, he said. He had a Minnesotan's admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation and cannibalism. I

Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.

He had a Minnesotan's admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation and cannibalism.

I had succeeded in saving him, but only, as it turned out, from death.

Such an interesting English expression "dog eat dog", since dogs don't really eat dogs (dogs do eat shit, but that's another story).

Viet Thanh Nguyen

He tried to forget what he'd discovered, how little other lives mattered to him when his own was at stake.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

A really great unfortunate person is one who cannot find water even in the sea.

A tree that grows in the shade of another one will die small.

Every man for himself and the Devil for all.

He was so poor that he couldn't afford a funeral that's why he is still alive.

He who says he is happy in the desert means he knows where the well is.

Life is just a game to be played according to the rules in an arena from where you can't survive anyway.

Talking about lions is not the same as facing them in the forest.

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.

Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.