I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors. — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Our loyalties should be to our emotions not to ourselves. when the opposite happens we become much more of survivors than being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The work is more than just about the amplification of survivors and quantifying their numbers. The work is really about survivors talking… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“There are all these people bragging about how they’re survivors, as though that’s something very special. But the only kind of person… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For many survivors, authority figures are the ultimate triggers. I have known several survivors, who have never gotten so much as a… — Pete Walker Copy Share Image
“Why must we be left, the survivors picking among the flotsam, among the small, unnoticed, unvalued clutter that was all that remained… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later,… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“We know—more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors—that the women and men who… — Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Copy Share Image
“When I listened to her, I understood: You have to hold out to see how your life unfolds, because it is most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sasha's green eyes were right up against yours, the lashes interlocking. "In Naples," she said, "there were kids who were just lost.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The building in the Bronx where I grew up was filled with mostly Holocaust survivors. My two best friends' parents both survived… — Amy Heckerling Copy Share Image
“Victoria Park looks like every other inner-city park in every other city in Canada; a large and handsome memorial to the war… — Gail Bowen Copy Share Image
“when traumatic events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetrator. All the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the… — Flora Jessop Copy Share Image
“March 15, 1 AE (from the journal of Danielle O’Connor) If someone had told me three months ago that 90 percent of… — Lindsey Fairleigh Copy Share Image
“Many survivors of relational and other forms of early life trauma are deeply troubled and often struggle with feelings of anger, grief,… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
“The main floor of Penn Station, early, the first commuters arriving, leaving, the man outstretched on his coat, wide circles of survivors… — Stanley Plumly Copy Share Image
“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“As the two held stares, it was hard not to feel part of a unique club that no one would ever volunteer… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses are understood… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
“First there was Caine’s patently false “confession.” Then there was the fact that the FAYZ Legal Defense Fund racked up three million… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“To take a specific example, a researcher in the Journal of Traumatic Stress interviewed 129 women with documented histories of child sexual… — Janet Walker Copy Share Image
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Some abusers on the middle-to-high end of the toxicity spectrum have absolutely no reservations about damaging survivors in any way possible, even… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“Colonel George A. Taylor rallied survivors with a cry, 'Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
“In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“You seem to have this strange image of me as a lost child, like I've just been thrown on the side of… — Dot Hutchison Copy Share Image
“The Survivors were the real Zombies now, for the next hour able to endlessly return from the dead to hunt us once… — Matthew Siege Copy Share Image
Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
I've remained in touch with more than a dozen descendants of Gremlin Special survivors, victims, and rescuers. I treasured my friendship with… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“Survivors' accounts reveal activities which are not only criminal but deliberately and brutally sadistic almost beyond belief.” — Susan C. Van Benschoten Copy Share Image
“Let's just day love isn't easy. even when you're the sole survivors of a plane crash and you have the hots for… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Normal people don’t play all the toxic games psychological abusers do, and yet, survivors end up initially blaming themselves.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“And as she fell apart, her shattered pieces began to bloom — blossoming until she became herself exactly as she was meant to… — Becca Lee Copy Share Image
![“Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses are understood within the context of trauma. A traumatic stress reaction consists of *natural* emotions and behaviors in response to a catastrophe, its immediate aftermath, or…” quote by Diane Langberg](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/edb/diane-langberg-56315_abuse-survivors_too-often-the-survivor-is-seen-by-himsel_1540837.jpg)
![“Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.” quote by Kerry Washington](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5fe/kerry-washington-7918_abuse_whenever-i-talk-to-survivors-of-a-domest_1048113.jpg)
