Survivors Quotes

“History is written by the survivors.”

— Gareth Johnson

“Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.”

— Joan Didion

There will always be survivors.

— Robert A. Heinlein

All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.

— Drew Pinsky

“Only survivors are allowed the luxury of sadness.”

— Mike Mullin

“I am one of the last survivors in this world.”

— Robert Mosentoff

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.

— David Ben-Gurion

Phil is a child of Holocaust survivors.

— Monica Horan

...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...

— Rachel Vincent

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

— Joan Baez

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

— David Wilkerson

“Sometimes we need to feel bad to know what it's like to feel good...”

— Nitra Gipson

“No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.”

— Captain Jack Sparrow

“In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.”

— Laurie Matthew

Survivors are cooperators. In order to survive in anything we need others to cooperate with or partner with.

— Mike Vance

“It is my personal opinion that all survivors can go from victim to victor and live more than a survivor.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection”

— Natascha Kampusch

“I have been known to tell survivors, who are remaining in contact with intensely toxic people, that I cannot continue to work…

— Shannon Thomas

Certainly 'Survivors,' when we put that series out, the second series dipped below 5 million for one of the episodes - all…

— Max Beesley

“You can recognize survivors by their creativity. In soulful, insightful, gentle, and nurturing creations, they often express the inner beauty they brought…

— Jeanne McElvaney

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other…

— Patrick Ness

“The important thing to remember is that even if survivors stayed broken for the rest of their lives, the abusers do not.…

— Shannon Thomas

The atomic bomb survivors... cannot wait another 50 years. Their highest hope is to see the abolition of nuclear weapons within their…

— Iccho Itoh

“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can…

— Carolyn Spring

I had a lot of strong women around my whole life who were survivors. My grandma survived breast cancer twice and the…

— Frances Bean Cobain

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth,…

— George Ayittey

“There were many things. I’m what I call a ‘moving on’ kind of girl. There’s a song on our new album about…

— Nick Johnstone

You have in the U.S. around two million new diagnoses of cancer a year, and 13 million survivors, so you have about…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

“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

“The survivors ran through the fields, escaping From themselves, knowing they wouldn't return For a hundred years. Before them were spread Those…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Oddly then, in our search for meaning, we often assign victims too much blame for their assaults, and offenders too little. Our…

— Anna Salter

“All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take…

— Heyward Ewart

“We, the survivors of the crossing, clung to the beast that had stolen us away. Not a soul among us had wanted…

— Lawrence Hill

“ [I]t was in the pairs that the prisoners kept alive the semblance of humanity concluded Elmer Luchterhand, a sociologist at Yale…

— Blaine Harden

“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed?…

— Beatrix Campbell

“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in…

— Laurie Matthew

“Dr. Peter Levine, who has worked with trauma survivors for twenty-five years, says the single most important factor he has learned in…

— Marilyn Van M. Derbur

“Mum was pregnant, then there was Sharron. [...] I wanted to keep him away from her - but for the wrong reasons.…

— Laurie Matthew

“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and…

— Laurie Matthew

“Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate…

— Chrystine Oksana