“People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.” — Donia Bijan Copy Share Image
I don't always burn my bridges, but when I do, I like there to be no survivors. — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
“On this violent, brutish little planet of ours, it’s the survivors who wind up the strongest ones of all.” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“You’ve already done the hardest part; you survived the trauma. You are much stronger than you think you are.” — Sarah Newman Copy Share Image
“When the survivors are gone we must not let the truth disappear with them. Please, give them a voice.” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“Survivors of abuse show us the strength of their personal spirit every time they smile.” — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
I was very surprised to learn how many cancer survivors are out there and how they instantly rallied to my support. — Michael Buffer Copy Share Image
If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors. — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've… — Samantha Fox Copy Share Image
“It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“We're all being left out one way or the other. The survivors miss being heroes. The heroes miss being alive. The only… — Cynthia Bass Copy Share Image
“Being survivors signifies that we have recognized that we have been through a lot that should never have taken place and we… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the… — Jim Kaat Copy Share Image
People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis.… — Greg Louganis Copy Share Image
“Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“In every immediate way, the natives had the upper hand. They outnumbered the survivors by more than ten to one. They were… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“By the time survivors are compelled to leave their psychologically abusive relationships, they do not see any other viable option but to… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
I didn't start Me Too as a hashtag, and had I had the opportunity to, I probably wouldn't have done it that… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
“In Naples, there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they'd been,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
With the children of Holocaust survivors, there is always a very close relationship. You grow with the sense that you are parenting… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
“Already they're the objects of narrow sideways looks, as if they had something to do with it; already they've assumed the cornered,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: I see what you're saying but people in psychology don't have a uniform agreement… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“I realized that it was not Ko-san, now safely ditched for ever, but Ko-san's mother who stood in need of pity and… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Political prisoners describe: - extreme physical and emotional torture - distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality - sham killings - begin… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Deciding to actively heal is terrifying because it means opening up to hope. For many survivors, hope has brought only disappointment. Although… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“But she’d been lucky to survive at all. The doomsday scenario Edmund Innes had outlined to her in 1969 hadn’t quite come… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“The other option was to go to the public library. Few people came back from a visit to the library. There was… — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image