“On this violent, brutish little planet of ours, it’s the survivors who wind up the strongest ones of all.” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.” — Donia Bijan 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
You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“[...] survivors like that, well, they understood better than anyone how to get back on their feet.” — Rachel Barenbaum Copy Share Image
Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability. — Zainab Salbi 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
“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
“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
“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
“Many survivors will work their way through the first stage of Despair, second stage of Education, third stage of Awakening, and find… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“We are survivors, in this age, so theories of progress ill become us, because we are intimately acquainted with the costs. To… — Saul Bellow 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
“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
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
But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from… — Anna Akhmatova 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
“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
“Political prisoners describe: - extreme physical and emotional torture - distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality - sham killings - begin… — Laurie Matthew 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
“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
“Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown,… — Rachel E. Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“He might all the same do a little something for us. We’re on our backs, doesn’t He see?' 'I’m doing my best,… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image