Survivor Quotes · Page 6

“War is most unkind to the memories of survivors”

— Thabo Katlholo

“A trauma doesn't stop just because you've been rescued.”

— Dot Hutchison

I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.

— George H. W. Bush

I am a survivor of domestic violence,

— Brooke Axtell

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

— Robert Jay Lifton

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

— Lena Dunham

“[...] survivors like that, well, they understood better than anyone how to get back on their feet.”

— Rachel Barenbaum

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

— Zainab Salbi

“Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor.”

— Elaine N. Aron

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.

— Lee Tergesen

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see…

— Mary Hart

“This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have…

— Alison Miller

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

— Faye Moskowitz

“Abused children realize that they cannot rely on their emotions since their innocent love and trust are already crushed and betrayed. They…

— Patricia Dsouza

There was a whole batch of mc's that came out with me and a lot of them got more exposure than me…

— Cormega

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional.…

— Aida Turturro

“One lone survivor. A bottle of red wine, left in the trunk from a previous shopping trip, rolled across the pavement amongst…

— Lisa B. Thomas

This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We,…

— Anonymous

“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments', which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only…

— Alice Jamieson

“It wasn't a sign of weakness to tell what happened to me. I feel guilt no longer, only regret. The other emotions…

— Charles L. Bailey Jr

Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound…

— Earl A Grollman

I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about…

— Amy Schumer

We know that we need to explore desire in fiction - many say that the only way a story exists is that…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

To not only be a cancer survivor, but to return to the sport of boxing, because, I mean, this is not basketball,…

— Daniel Jacobs

I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious…

— Lee Daniels

The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There…

— Charles Fort

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

— Yann Martel

“I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.”

— Erica Cook

I'm a survivor. I did whatever I had to to put food in my belly. For a while, stealing fed me.

— Mike Perry

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

— Daniel Barenboim

“She was a beautiful dreamer who had survived the ugliest nightmares.”

— Mishi McCoy

“The truth is misrepresented, distorted, altered, tampered and changed in the mind of the child.”

— Patricia Dsouza

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

— Seal

...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...

— Rachel Vincent

“He wasn’t raising a child with dreams for her future. He was raising a survivor. - Cori”

— E.R. Arroyo

“An educated survivor can, and will, guard against future abuse.”

— Shannon Thomas

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

— Joan Baez

I was a victim for a moment. I will be a survivor for a lifetime.

— Scarlet Koop