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Quotes About Survival

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
~ Joseph Conrad
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
~ Cormac McCarthy
We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.
~ Thomas Bernhard, Extinction
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
~ D.H. Lawrence
Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
~ Ingrid Bergman
What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.
~ Esmeralda Santiago
Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.
~ Bethany Hamilton
Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.
~ Lord Byron
Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
~ Seth Godin
You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.
~ Tupac Shakur
I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.
~ Alex Ferguson
The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever
~ Anne Frank
I am invincible, as long as I'm alive.
~ John Mayer
Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge
~ Patricia Cornwell, Postmortem
The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Life did not stop, and one had to live.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.
~ Richelle Mead, Frostbite
Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
~ You could do a lot worse.
Survivors can't always choose their methods.
~ Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood
cause when there's life there's still hope
~ Michael Morpurgo, War Horse
I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
~ Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
~ A lamb in a city of wolves.
Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for.
~ Ernie J Zelinski