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Quotes About Survival

Life has simply decided to open the floodgates, trying to drown me in a whirlwind of twists and turns.
~ Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
It a great miracle that I am alive.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
in that cold autistic dark.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
In the grueling light that passed for day...
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.
~ Iris Murdoch, The Bell
If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
~ James Hetfield
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
~ Gerard Way
If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?
~ Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
Scars are an affirmation of living.
~ Joshua Wisenbaker
Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.
~ Michelle C. Hillstrom
We think we are far more creative and wiser than others who are surviving and struggling. We never put us in their shoe. We always expect them to do the same.
~ Bhavik Sarkhedi
Existing is exhausting.I want to live - How to be
~ P.A. Bitez, Soft Tortures
The hardest part of life is living it.
~ Kinsey
Stay Alive in Your Own Life
~ Jan Jansen
The important thing was that we were alive...
~ Henri Charrière, Papillon
...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t
~ John Green
If you're born with in the wild you run with the wild
~ Cristian L. Martinez
What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?
~ Stacey Kade, The Rules
He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
GRIEF TAUGHT ME TO LIVE NUMB. Death takes more than just the one life. It thieves tiny particles from the ones left behind until you feel only half alive.
~ Kennedy Ryan, My Soul to Keep
Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. We have not outgrown this.
~ John Medina
Regardless of who you are, the brain pays a great deal of attention to several questions: "Can I eat it? Will it eat me?" "Can I mate with it? Will it mate with me?" "Have I seen it before?
~ John Medina