Survivor Quotes - Page 2

• A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Death, Men

  "The Magic Mountain". Book by Thomas Mann, transl. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, Ch. 6, 1955.

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• Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

  Michael N. Castle

  Cancer, Second Chance, Way

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• There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Team, Rivers, Guy

  "Lone Survivor". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.

  Frances Farmer

  Being Alone, Cells, Years

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• War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces, the sound of child pleading, the smell of smoke and fear. Women survivors of war are not the single image portrayed on the television screen, but the glue that holds families and countries together. Perhaps by understanding women, and the other side of war ... we will have more humility in our discussions of wars... perhaps it is time to listen to womens side of history.

  Zainab Salbi

  Country, Children, War

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• One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  War, Taught Us, Hot

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Cancer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Survivors are cooperators. In order to survive in anything we need others to cooperate with or partner with.

  Mike Vance

  Order, Needs, Partners

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• Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body arent always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.

  Claire Cameron

  Strong, Heart, People

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• How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

  Jodi Picoult

  War, Remember

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

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• Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

  Seal

  Coward, Navy Seal, Moderation

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• During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.

  Melissa Bank

  Inspirational, Distance, Cancer

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• The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suicide, Spiritual, Beloved Community

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.75, Beacon Press

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• There will always be survivors.

  Robert A. Heinlein

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• I am a survivor of domestic violence.

  Brooke Axtell

  Domestic Violence, Violence

  "Katy Perry Just Gave an Incredibly Moving Grammys Performance" by Sally Holmes, www.elle.com. February 9, 2015.

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• I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

  Don Marquis

  Civilization, Feet, Atheism

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.72, Doubleday

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• We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

  Peter Jennings

  Cancer, Survival, Diagnosis

  Final ABC broadcast, April 5, 2005.

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• As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.

  Etgar Keret

  Believe, Son, Holocaust

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Feels, Survived

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• So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis

  Ellen Bass

  Healing, Writing, Responsibility

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• You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

  Carrie Fisher

  Order, Difficult Situations, Mental Illness

  Carrie Fisher (2005). “The Best Awful: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy.

  Miljenko Jergovic

  Sleep, Fighting, Silence

  Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk

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• Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools

  Jeaniene Frost

  Fool, Scar, Pity

  Jeaniene Frost (2013). “Twice Tempted: A Night Prince Novel”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.

  Margaret Mead

  Survival, Age, Quality

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• There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Good Man, Benefits

  "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments".

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