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Quotes About Survival

As long as you're alive, there is hope...Hope is saying that I will live one more day, and that is a blessing, too.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
Question What is a child? A quiet between two bombardments.
~ Ilya Kaminsky
The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
~ Imelda Marcos
I see thunderstorms around us now, but these are just baby storms," the psychic told her. "The mother storm is coming. When she arrives, her lightning will scorch the land, her thunder will deafen us, and her heavy rain will drown us all. The storm will last for three months and many will die. Those who escape will find no one to turn to—every friendly face will have perished.
~ Immaculee Ilibagiza
They can only kill us once.
~ Immaculee Ilibagiza
I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.
~ Immaculee Ilibagiza
The world had seen the same thing happen many times before. After it happened in Nazi Germany, all the big, powerful countries swore, "Never again!" But here we were, six harmless females huddled in darkness, marked for execution because we were born Tutsi. How had history managed to repeat itself? How had this evil managed to surface once again? Why had the devil been allowed to walk among us unchallenged, poisoning hearts and minds until it was too late?
~ Immaculee Ilibagiza
Een overlevingsstrategie die de morele grondvesten ondermijnt zou ik niet 'overleven' noemen maar 'zelfvernietiging', de aanvaarding van destructieve krachten.
~ Imre Kertesz
Você sobrevive a sua falta de sensibilidade e compreende que o vazio do mundo é, de certa maneira, obra sua.
~ Imre Kertesz
Você sobrevive a sua falta de sensibilidade e compreende que o vazio do mundo mundo é, de certa maneira, obra sua.
~ Imre Kertesz
Na Auschwitz is het overbodig over de menselijke natuur te oordelen.
~ Imre Kertesz
No" — I could never be another person's father, fate, god, "No" — it should never happen to another child, what happened to me; my childhood. (Auschwitz).
~ Imre Kertesz
I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.
~ Imre Kertesz
It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.
~ Ina May Gaskin
again he begs his victim to flee for his life.
~ Inaz? Nitobe
If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile
~ Indian proverb
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.
~ Indian proverb
All things pass, but the poor remain. We are the people of the Apokalis. Tomorrow there will be more of us.
~ Unknown
Poverty can make people self-centered
~ Unknown
As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he knew now that he was living in a prison, that he had to make the best of it in there and would soon rage and would have to speak this thieves' cant, the only language at his disposal, in order not to be so abandoned.
~ Unknown
Once one has survived something then survival itself interferes with understanding, and you don't even know which lives came before and which is your life of today, you even mix up your own lives.
~ Unknown
YaÅŸayacak bir niçin'i bulunan, hemen her nas?la dayanabilir.
~ Unknown
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it." – Sir Walter Scott
~ Inglath Cooper
One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)
~ Ingmar Bergman