Survived Quotes

486 quotes by 402 authors

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. — Eddie Vedder
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who… — Elie Wiesel
That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life… — Elie Wiesel
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. — Tennessee Williams
Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only… — Robert Winston
Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately,… — Brady Udall
History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian… — David Drake
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. — Flannery O'Connor
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence… — Yann Martel
The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over. — Toni Morrison
I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into… — Christopher Moore
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts… — Audre Lorde
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre. — Laurie R. King
He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility. — Mark Haddon
I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away… — Gregory David Roberts
Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the DoppelschlÃ¤ferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us. — Michael Crichton
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time,… — Dick Francis

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