“Don’t work for the survivors or architects of massacres. You’ll live just long enough to regret it.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
“Survivors often get to a point in recovery where they can predict the responses of the toxic person.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life” — Lynette Gould Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't end, Claire. In the morning, the survivors start to build again. It's way of things. The human way.” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead… — Alice Braga Copy Share Image
“The important thing to remember is that even if survivors stayed broken for the rest of their lives, the abusers do not.… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“You can recognize survivors by their creativity. In soulful, insightful, gentle, and nurturing creations, they often express the inner beauty they brought… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
“people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection” — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
“I have been known to tell survivors, who are remaining in contact with intensely toxic people, that I cannot continue to work… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
I think we're all survivors, to be honest. I mean, some of us more than others - some of us have to… — Passenger Copy Share Image
Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Many survivors struggle to believe the abuse happened. They don’t want to believe it. It’s too painful to think about. They don’t… — Laura Davis Copy Share Image
“Oddly then, in our search for meaning, we often assign victims too much blame for their assaults, and offenders too little. Our… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run out of nothings to tell them.… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
“There are survivors of disasters whose accounts never begin with the tornado warning or the captain announcing engine failure, but always much… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“Most survivors tend to be the care-giver rather than the care-receiver. We tend to be good at being spouses and parents, anticipating… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
To all the survivors out there, I want them to know that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever knew.… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
“The fear of abandonment forced me to comply as a child, but I’m not forced to comply anymore. The key people in… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is… — Lori Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“I think I just said it, but I think it’s worth repeating. They gave me hope that there is good in the… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“Both incest and the Holocaust have been subject to furious denial by perpetrators and other individuals and by highly organised groups such… — Janet Walker Copy Share Image
“It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed young woman, for about three months… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“Like the legends of Kon-Tiki Viracocha [...], the South American civilizing hero, white-skinned and bearded like Quetzalcoatl and the Apkallu sages [...],… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“And as it quickly became clear, there were not very many survivors to find. Only fourteen people were pulled out of the… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
“Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Plans—nothing ever goes as planned, and the survivors are the ones who can adapt on the fly.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.” — Rami Ollaik Copy Share Image
The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves. — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors. — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
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
“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