Survivor Quotes - Page 17

• I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.

  Grete Waitz

  Cancer, Doctors, Care

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• It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Responsibility, Stories

  Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Survival, Today, Celebration

  Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.244, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Want, Lasts

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• Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

  Eddie Bracken

  Whole Life, Has Beens, Surviving

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• In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis.

  Carl Zimmer

  Christian, Kings, Sex

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• I don't always burn my bridges, but when I do, I like there to be no survivors.

  Ursula Vernon

  Bridges

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• I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.

  David Irving

  Believe, Thinking, Jew

  "The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel " by David Irving, www.ihr.org. 1988.

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• You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Fighter

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• In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

  Antony Flew

  Space, Forever, Understanding

  Antony Flew (2000). “Merely Mortal?: Can You Survive Your Own Death?”

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• Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking all the survivors into slavery, where they duly perished, so that today not a trace remains of what was previously a community with dominion over an area of some thirty leagues.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Christian, Numbers, People

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• But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you ... more proud.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Blow, Clouds, People

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.

  Ilana Mercer

  Suicide, People, Choices

  "Vices Are Not Crimes". www.wnd.com. May 08, 2002.

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• Survivors have a difficult time expressing their feelings. They are more accustomed to minimizing their pain and hiding how they really feel, both from themselves and others. They often become frightened whenever they feel anything intensely, be it anger, pain, fear, or even love and joy. They fear their emotions will consume them or make them crazy.

  Beverly Engel

  Pain, Crazy, Joy

  Beverly Engel (1990). “The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse”, Ivy Books

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• Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Yield, Wind, Civilization

  "China, Past and Present". Book by Pearl S. Buck, Ch. 1, 1972.

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• The Soul is a fact, but it is not physical. ... Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out.

  Caroline Myss

  Fire, Soul, Doe

  "Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul". Book by Caroline Myss, 2007.

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• We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

  James Mattis

  Faith, Military, Patriotic

  "19 Unforgettable Quotes From Retiring General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis" by Geoffrey Ingersoll and Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. January 23, 2013.

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• It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.

  Ernest Renan

  Christian, Jesus, Taken

  Ernest Renan (2015). “The Life of Jesus: Works of Renan”, 谷月社

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• Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim.

  Patricia Buckley

  Self Improvement, Matter, Victim

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• Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. But both are a reflection of our culture and of our priorities. Where there is empathy there is always a solution, where there is apathy there is always an excuse.

  Payam Akhavan

  School, Reflection, Empathy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

  Walter Mosley

  Train Wrecks, World, Modern

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.21, Penguin

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• It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be done about that now because the victims are dead and the survivors are innocent. These are good reasons for keeping our mouths shut about the past: but tell me, what are our reasons for silence about atrocities still to come?

  Damon Knight

  Past, Silence, Atrocities

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• Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.

  Craig Rosebraugh

  Holocaust, Example, News

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• To all the survivors out there, I want them to know that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever knew. We survived, that should be enough but it isn't. We must work hard to become whole again, to fill our soul with love and inspiration, to live the life that was intended for us before it was disrupted by war and horrors, and help rebuild a world that is better than the one we had just left.

  Loung Ung

  War, Live Life, Inspiration

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• Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Skills, Careers, Challenges

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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