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Quotes About Surviving

Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.
~ Thomas Campbell
There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.It is really that simple.And that hard.
~ John Connolly, The Infernals
Survival is only the first step.
~ Tess Gerritsen
I'm just looking to get through the day.
~ Peter Falk
The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.
~ Karen Russell
The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents are unable to function effectively in the parenting role show more anxiety and depression, as well as sleep and health problems, than those whose parents have a strong support network and solid inner resources to rely on.
~ Hope Edelman
The irony is that people are surviving lockdown thanks to the arts. For centuries, the task of washing clothes has been made more bearable by singing.
~ Ilan Stavans
You are a veteran, I see. You might think that fact yields some relief on my part. It does not. I do not care where you have been, who you served under, or how many officers you knifed in the back. All I care about is how much you know about fighting.' 'Never knifed a single officer, sir…in the back. And I don't know a damned thing about fighting, except surviving it.
~ Steven Erikson
Survive until tomorrow
~ Mitch Albom
get a reward for surviving," Kat was saying. "You can start by taking off all you clothes and?" "I don't need to hear this, Miss Parker," Mr. Ankh snapped. "?showering," she finished. "Alone. Of course. I like my men clean.
~ Gena Showalter
It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Here's some advice. Stay alive.
~ Suzanne Collins
How are you managing? And don't say you're fine." It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'll tell them how I survive it.
~ Suzanne Collins
there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be NATURALLY SELECTED.
~ Charles Darwin
A lot of life boils down to the question of whether a person is going to be able to realize his fantasies, or else end up surviving only through compromises he can't face up to. The way I figure it, Heaven and Hell are right here on Earth. Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses. - Bonanza Jellybean
~ Tom Robbins
It was altogether appropriate that Horst Mahler, one of the few surviving founders of Left terrorism in West Germany, should end up three decades later on the far Right of the political spectrum.
~ Tony Judt
S)omehow I've survived again. I don't know how to stop. —Ruth
~ Carol Matas
It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
~ Bertolt Brecht
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
~ Alan Gregg
she'd survived Death by Expense Report
~ J.D. Robb
I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.
~ Howard Shore
And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.
~ Scott Caan
life is about living, not just surviving. Nobody gets out of it alive in the end, so we just have to make the most of the time we get.
~ Christopher L. Bennett