Survival Quotes

Despite everything, every piece of Alaska sang to me. I remembered every curve in the trails, every tree in the forest. It was familiar to me, comfortable. The more I thought about leaving it, the less I liked the idea. This was my home.

~ Summer Lane

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

~ Aberjhani

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

~ Aberjhani

Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist.

~ Anne Stevenson

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

~ Dave Pelzer

Sorry Johnny. Sorry for what For shouting at you. It's just that when I think about the future I keep panicking. It's like falling from the top of the stairs in the dark not knowing where I'll end up. He put his arm around my shoulders. I understand. Life is precarious for most of us but more so for you. What you forget is what most of your friends see in you. What's that The ability to beat the odds... And fall on my feet He nodded. I just hope that lasts. It will Catkin it will. It wouldn't dare fail you.

~ Julia Golding

Everything will work out... don't give up hope, remain calm.

~ Jonathan Franklin

She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.

~ Grace Willows

Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky. Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride

~ Grace Willows

You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.

~ Grace Willows

You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his kneesExcerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace WillowsComing this summer to Amazon Kindle and paperback.

~ Grace Willows

And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.

~ Rachel L. Schade

There is never a guarantee of survival, no matter your strength or skill or wit. There is only the day you are conceived and the day you die, and all else is a series of moments you either embrace or endure.

~ Rachel L. Schade

I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered. But do not believe what you feel. You will not be easily broken.

~ Rachel L. Schade

We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.

~ Rachel L. Schade

God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.

~ Rick Yancey

Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.

~ Steve Voake

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

~ Robert Fanney

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

I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.

~ Deborah Curtis

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?

~ Paulo Coelho

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

~ Vicki Harrison

I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.

~ Tim Kreider

That kind of imagination is why we're not dead.

~ Rebecca Mckinsey

We were playing a game against an unknown and unforgiving opponent. The stakes were terrible—play well or die—but we didn’t even know the ground rules.

~ Nando Parrado

Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Going against the storm requires strength, energy and a will to succeed.

~ Mitta Xinindlu

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

~ Adrienne Rich

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.

~ Jack Mcclelland

Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species.

~ Doug Dillon

Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.

~ Shaun Hick

You never know what will save you.

~ Abbey Wilson

Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.

~ Molly Peacock

What doesn't kill me provides writing material.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.

~ Toba Beta

You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Acquiring new knowledge has been crucial for survival over the millennia.

~ Eraldo Banovac