Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure. — Sue Grafton 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
There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors. — Elizabeth Hoyt 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 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
“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
“Survivors often get to a point in recovery where they can predict the responses of the toxic person.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“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
“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
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
People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis.… — Greg Louganis Copy Share Image
“In every immediate way, the natives had the upper hand. They outnumbered the survivors by more than ten to one. They were… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“Like so many survivors of childhood abuse, Marilyn exemplified the power of the life force, the will to live and to own… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had… — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
“Do all abusers care if a survivor gets to a “No more” point? Not at all. Actually, most abusers could care less,… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“There were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster… — Michael Salter 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
“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman 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
“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
“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
The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.” — Rami Ollaik Copy Share Image
“We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors. — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
