--- title: "9 Life Surviving Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 9 Life Surviving quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Life Surviving sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a9/eddie-bracken-74028_life_oh-i-m-a-survivor-my-whole-life-has-been_919986.png" --- > [Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-bracken/oh-i-m-a-survivor-my-whole-life-has-been-surviving/) [Eddie Bracken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-bracken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a9/eddie-bracken-74028_life_oh-i-m-a-survivor-my-whole-life-has-been_919986.png) > [I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/i-choose-not-to-think-of-my-life-as-surviving-but-coping/) [Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75e/lorna-luft-9342_coping_i-choose-not-to-think-of-my-life-as-surv_2616180.jpg) > [Life is not surviving, life is for the living and loving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-vanpelt/life-is-not-surviving-life-is-for-the-living-and-loving/) [Austin Vanpelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/austin-vanpelt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ed/austin-vanpelt-25149_life_life-is-not-surviving-life-is-for-the-li_3067717.jpg) > [Somewhere between 'living a life' and 'surviving a life ' we all grew up](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tinku-razoria/somewhere-between-living-a-life-and-surviving-a-life-we-all-grew-up/) [Tinku Razoria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tinku-razoria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfb/tinku-razoria-756_hapiness_somewhere-between-living-a-life-and-surv_2926352.jpg) > [There is more to life than surviving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cassandra-clare/there-is-more-to-life-than-surviving/) [Cassandra Clare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cassandra-clare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f96/cassandra-clare-9_inspirational_there-is-more-to-life-than-surviving-276_2760322.jpg) > [“What I know is, you have a better chance in life-of surviving it-if you tolerate loss well;manage not to be a cynic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/what-i-know-is-you-have-a-better-chance-in-life-of-surviving-it-if/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1b/richard-ford-2097_better-chance_what-i-know-is-you-have-a-better-chance_1484020.png) > [My life also prepared me to play T-Dog. That was what my entire life was about - surviving. To be on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irone-singleton/my-life-also-prepared-me-to-play-t-dog-that-was-what-my-entire-life/) [IronE Singleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irone-singleton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5be/irone-singleton-36696_entire-life_my-life-also-prepared-me-to-play-t-dog-t_3095274.jpg) > [“Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/life-in-general-was-cruel-and-offered-only-different-types-of-voids/) [Lucy Grealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-grealy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/lucy-grealy-24985_cruel_life-in-general-was-cruel-and-offered-on_3090399.jpg) > [What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/what-i-know-is-you-have-chance-in-life-of-surviving-it-if-you/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c4/richard-ford-2097_chance_what-i-know-is-you-have-chance-in-life-o_2826597.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-surviving/#itemlist", "name": "Life Surviving Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Oh, I'm a survivor. 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