Quotes About Survival

Every night I had nightmares. I dreamed of rats the size of cats, dead bodies, and needles stuck into me. After we found out that the Nazi's had made soup out of Jewish fat, I dreamed that soap bars spoke to me in the voices of my parents and sisters, asking me, "Why are you washing with us?

So I am saying to you, whoever is reading this book, to remember: never ever give up. You can survive and make your dreams come true.

Until that moment I had stopped thinking about my family. Maybe it was due to the bread we ate each evening that supposedly contained not only sawdust but a powder called bromide that made us forget memories of home, a sedative of some kind. Whatever it was or was not, I could not feel sorry for myself, for Miriam, for anyone. I could not think of myself as a victim, or I knew I would perish. It was simple. For me, there was no room for any thought except survival.

He was covered with whip marks, oozing blood. They had burned his fingernails and toenails with the flame of candles. It took him many days to recover.

Los granos se nos enterraron en la piel de las rodillas, pero eso no fue lo que más nos lastimó.

Yo estaba viva, pero tendría que reaprender a vivir para hacerme un lugar dentro de un mundo que a menudo no querría conocer los horrores que yo había presenciado.

Many returned after the war to reap the gruesome rewards of what has been called a 'golden harvest', digging up the remains of the victims and sifting through the ash and bones to find any gold teeth or valuable materials that had been overlooked when their bodies and possessions had first been looted by the Nazis.

Our worst fears had come to pass. As of 15 May 1940 we were living under Nazi occupation, and we had nowhere else to go.

Vladimir decided to bin his second attempt at his Partisan memoirs and to begin writing a book entitled How to Survive the Years Leading Up to Death. Peter observed that all years were years leading up to death, so why not just call the book How to Survive.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

The West was not dull, it was stupendously dull, and when not dull it was murderous. A man could get killed without realizing it. There were unbelievable flash floods, weird snakes, and God Himself did not know what else, along with Indians descending as swiftly as the funnel of a tornado. On

It is remarkable how little concern men seem to have for logic, statistics, and even, indeed, survival: we live by emotion, prejudice, and pride."24

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I did my best to hide by changing my name many times. But I was captured by the Chinese police. But because my Chinese was so good, they thought I was Chinese and released me. That was a miracle.

I produce so little that the works have to be editioned. Otherwise, I don't survive. Also, editioning is relevant for communication. If you make three new works, it means that nine objects are available. Three people talking about your work is fine, but nine makes a difference.

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

I was a young mother with a dependent. I went from nice flat and fire service job to cold and hungry with a child. I lived rough for two years, with six months relying on the food bank.

Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.

My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.

'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country is what remains of this hugely destructive war.

Although their maneuverability is limited, blind flies can fly remarkably well.

Remember the first rule of gunfighting... 'have a gun.'