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Quotes About Survival

When life is a horror....Don't look like a ghost!
~ Cass van Krah
Has your life ever been so messed up that you wondered how you would survive another day?
~ Alisa Mullen, Unchosen
Love must face reality, if it is to surviveJumping in the Puddles of Life
~ Loretta Livingstone
A miracle came in the form of a doctor whom her mother knew. He put her in a roasting pan and placed her above a fire to keep her warm.
~ Christy Deveaux, Wicka
Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.
~ Jenim Dibie
She could have risen from the ashes. Instead, she smoldered in the embers.
~ Thinking Out Loud
Better live than dead.
~ Touaxia Vang
Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...
~ Sanhita Baruah
I have no intention of dying. In fact, that will be the last thing I do!
~ Milton H. Erickson
Without thinking, I took one of the black velvet ribbons from my hair, wrapped it around my neck, pulled as hard as I could, and tried to kill myself. It didn't work.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.
~ Miranda July
Istoria e o voluptate foarte înÈ™el?toare È™i o disciplin? care nu-È™i salveaz? niciodat? pe cei mai riguroÈ™i adepÈ›i. Istoria nu ajut? s? supravieÈ›uiasc? decât pe acei care o fac, nu È™i pe cei care o cerceteaz? obiectiv. Cu cât eÈ™ti mai obiectiv, cu atât eÈ™ti mai trec?tor, mai muritor. Subiectivitatea, voinÈ›a personal?, elanul temperamental – numai acestea sunt p?strate în istorie.
~ Mircea Eliade
It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it because every time I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really.
~ Miriam Toews
to survive something we first need to know what it is we are surviving
~ Miriam Toews
Between 2005-2009, more than 300 girls and women of Molotschna were made unconscious and attacked in their own beds. On average, an attack occurred every three or four days. Finally, Leisl Neustandter forced herself to stay awake night after night until she caught a young man prying open her bedroom window, holding a jug of belladonna spray in one hand. Leisl and her adult daughter wrestled the man to the ground and tied him up with baler twine.
~ Miriam Toews
Everytime I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really. - Nomi
~ Miriam Toews
La vida i la conservació de la vida són possibles fins i tot quan les circumstàncies semblen desesperants.
~ Miriam Toews
you still have to eat.
~ Miriam Toews
work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
~ Miriam Toews
When she looked at me she saw a child surrounded by flames, screaming. And that must have been hard for her.
~ Miriam Toews
Our dreams are little stories or puzzles that we must solve to be free, Sebastian said. He was reading out loud from Wilson's notebook. My dream is me offering me a solution to the conundrum of my life. My dream is me offering me something that I need and my responsibility to myself is to try to understand what it means. Our dreams are a thin curtain between survival and extinction.
~ Miriam Toews
after hearing my mom's survival dream I think maybe this is my survival dream and it's not a nightmare. It's the beginning of my own cure. Because to survive something we first need to know what it is we're surviving.
~ Miriam Toews
Znamo mi vrlo dobro kako izgleda pod tu?im repom, ali bez toga njuškanja ne možemo živjeti.
~ Miroslav Krleža
People are only mean when they are threatened.
~ Mitch Albom