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Quotes About Survival

Someone tried to kill me, and I'm going swimming. I'm going swimming, because it doesn't matter. I'm going swimming, because I don't matter. I'm going swimming, because that's what Claires do. We swim and we daydream and we read and we wait for someone to care, and they never, ever, ever do.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
No matter how sharp its edges, no knife could hold a candle to fang and claw.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
It didn't matter if my ribs hurt. It didn't matter if every time I blinked, I saw Sora's fist coming toward my face. I needed a plan. I needed to be strong. So I just kept running, because come hell or high water, a girl couldn't afford to be weak or human at a time like this.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Q: Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones. What am I? A: Memories — A FOLK RIDDLE
~ Jennifer McMahon
People like Theodore Finch don't die.He's just wandering.
~ Jennifer Niven
Every forty seconds, someone is left behind to cope with the loss.
~ Jennifer Niven
The bad news: surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: the worst is already over.
~ Jennifer Niven
I Am In Pieces
~ Jennifer Niven
The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. the reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe--I'm fighting to be here in this [crappy], messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.
~ Jennifer Niven
There's no rush of having survived, only emptiness, and lungs that need air, and wet hair sticking to my face.
~ Jennifer Niven
He knows as well as I do what the Why is. It's everything changing when I was ten. It's the bullying and the fear. So much fear of everything, but mostly death. Sudden, out-of-the-blue death. It's also me being terrified of life. It's the giant emptiness in my chest. It's touching my face or my skin and feeling nothing. This is the Why of me staying home in the first place. And the Why of me eating. And the Why of me ending up here. But that doesn't mean I want to die.
~ Jennifer Niven
The great Anna Faris once said that the secret of surviving high school is to "lay low.
~ Jennifer Niven
But here's the thing- even if there aren't any aneurysms in there, these facts won't change: I will still be someone who watches; I will still be someone who is prepared and on the lookout, because at any moment the earth could stop spinning. I've lived through the worst thing that can ever happen to me, and I know firsthand what the world can do.
~ Jennifer Niven
At times such as this, it becomes more important for art to survive.
~ Jennifer Niven
The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe--I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control.
~ Jennifer Niven
Things become very simple when you have no choice, when there's nothing left for you but to endure as long as you can, and survive if you can.
~ Ellis Peters
What you'll have to do now is ride the rap, as they say. It's all anybody has to do.
~ Elmore Leonard
They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.
~ Émile Zola
Hanya orang-orang tak berumah, yang memang sudah tidak punya apa-apa dan karenanya tidak mungkin kehilangan apa-apa, yang ingin melihat tembak-menembak dimulai. Lisa, kepada Quenu
~ Émile Zola
Então era possível que uma pessoa se matasse num trabalho de escravo, no fundo dessas trevas horrendas, e nem sequer conseguisse ganhar os parcos tostões para o pão de cada dia?
~ Émile Zola
war is] life itself...We must eat or be eaten so that the world might live. it is only warlike nations which have prospered: a nation dies as soon as it disarms
~ Émile Zola
She was afraid to love me, Nancy said. I never realized it. By keeping her distance, she thought she could protect me. If she didn't love me, maybe I would escape notice. I would survive.
~ Emilie Richards
Ve ya??yorsam eÄŸer, ben onda ya??yorum. Her ÅŸey yok olup kaybolsa, geriye sadece bir o kalsa, ben de var olmaya devam ederdim. Ama her ÅŸey yerinde kald??? halde sadece o yok olsa, bu koca evren ba??ma y?k?l?r, varl???m? sürdüremezdim.
~ Emily Bronte
Dois dias é muito para quem viveu de água fria e maus pensamentos. Nelly para Catherine, quando Catherine delirara durante dias.
~ Emily Bronte