Quotes About Survival

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

Those times a person feels most afraid for their life? Those are the times you know you're alive.

Children had to know pain or how would they ever know what to do when they encountered it. Trouble would come no matter what. The best you could do was to raise your children in such a way that when trouble found them, as it would, they'd be able to survive it. Teach your children well.

When we the moment her obsession took hold, to spare her children the pain of loss. As if any parent could do that. As if it would be a good thing, if she could...The best you could do was to raise your children in such a way that when trouble found them-- as it would--they'd be able to survive it.

When was the moment her obsession took hold, to spare her children the pain of loss. As if any parent could do that. As if it would be a good thing, if she could...The best you could do was to raise your children in such a way that when trouble found them-- as it would--they'd be able to survive it.

Las once! La guerra ha terminado. Un clamor se eleva de las trincheras. Gorros al aire. Abrazos. Lágrimas que dejan regueros claros al deslizarse por rostros negros de mugre e intemperie. Sobreviviré. Podré contarles a mis nietos cómo fue esto.

En qué momento dejamos de ser los cazadores para convertirnos en presas?

cuando el hombre es lobo para el hombre.

La niña aprendió pronto una importante lección: que pobre no significa bueno, y que la generosidad entre los ladrones y los desfavorecidos es tan escasa como entre las personas con más suerte. Intentaron robarle muchas veces, procuraron hacerle cosas peores muchas otras. No siempre pudo evitarlo.

En la imagen del árbol de la vida que tenía en su mente Darwin hay también mucha muerte. Un gran número de hojas secas yacen en el suelo, bajo la verde copa. Corresponden a los organismos desaparecidos que solo nos son conocidos por los fósiles, las hojas marchitas que en su día brillaron al sol.

There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.

Is that what you think this is about? Your letting me die? I don't know what clouds your judgement worse. Your guilt or your antiquated sense of morality. Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me. But why... Why on God's earth--??! Is he still alive!!??

she has come to the conclusion that a certain amount of lying, like the priming of a pump, is necessary to keep life going. Absolute honesty would bring everything to a shattering halt.

Black, in Egyptian cosmology, was the color of fertility and life everlasting—the color of good, rich soil without which there is no survival.

But you are lucky. You are going to live. The one ball that might have killed you just pushed your intestines aside - like a marble dropped into a bowl of spaghetti.

Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.

Repetition is the mute language of the abused child.

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.

It is regarded as axiomatic that parents have more power then children. This is an inescapable biological fact; young children are completely dependent on their parents or other caring adults for survival.

Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at this time of the interview (while in their 20s and 30s) that they would never be safe with their fathers, and that they would have to defend themselves as long as their fathers lived.

La respuesta habitual a las atrocidades es borrarlas de la conciencia. Ciertas violaciones de! orden social son demasiado terribles como para pronunciarlas en voz alta: ese es el significado de la palabra impronunciable.

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

The stinging insects clung to one another and floated in clumps the size of basketballs, the ants on bottom giving their lives to save those on top. They