Survival Quotes (890 Quotes)

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  “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”

  Sarah J. Maas

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  “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

  Albert Camus

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  “We could do it, you know."
  "What?"
  "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”

  Suzanne Collins

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  “We’ll never survive!”
  “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”

  William Goldman

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  “If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”

  Michael Bassey Johnson

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  “No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
  
  Or you don't.”

  Stephen King

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  “What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.”

  Douglas Adams

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  “Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.”

  Cassandra Clare

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  “Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”

  Joss Whedon

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  “If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”

  Mahatma Gandhi

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  “I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”

  Susanna Kaysen

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  “We each survive in our own way.”

  Sarah J. Maas

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  “All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”

  James Baldwin

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  “The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”

  Joseph Heller

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  “All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”

  Yann Martel

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  “I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.”

  Tana French

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  “and when we speak we are afraid
  our words will not be heard
  nor welcomed
  but when we are silent
  we are still afraid
  So it is better to speak
  remembering
  we were never meant to survive”

  Audre Lorde

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  “Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”

  May Sarton

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• “The worst part is wondering how you’ll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you’ll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows. And maybe it’s treacherous old age coming on, threatening the worst. Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.”

  Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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  “Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”

  Laura Hillenbrand

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  “Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.”

  Betty Smith

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  “You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...”

  Nick Hornby

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  “Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.”

  Steve Maraboli

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  “Loving someone always requires you to not love others.”

  Koushun Takami

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  “To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave— that was magical.”

  Ransom Riggs

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