Quotes About Survival

We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.

What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

Venezuelans live on 3 dollars a month. That's a tragedy. That is impossible to survive under these conditions.

My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a tornado.

If we didn't desensitize ourselves in some way, every day would feel like its own tragedy.

Losing a game is not a tragedy after experiencing border raids and having to eat beetles because you are out of rations.

I know the truth of North Korea. The oppression and their tragedy. It cannot be silenced.

Tragedy struck the family when I was 10 days old. My eldest brother was killed in a car accident. He was six. My grandmother survived the incident, but the loss devastated my parents. I think they went into shock for a couple of years.

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

People find the humor in life all the time. And you have to in order to make it through real life. Like, some things are tragic, but you have to laugh.

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

For the last ten years, I've been trying to avoid getting killed by Putin's regime, and there already exists a trail of dead bodies connected to its desire to see me dead.

Very good records exist about the Trail of Tears. Journals and other records kept by Cherokees and non-Indians tell such things as which people were where on which day.

I have seen hard times in my life. I lost my foot and was badly injured after a gang of thieves threw me out of the running train. I laid down on the tracks for hours and later was hospitalised. I could have failed and died.

My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through.

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.