Survived Quotes

486 Survived quotes by 402 unique authors

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 Doppelschläferin, 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
One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters… — Laurell K. Hamilton
High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to… — Scott Westerfeld
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived:… — Rainer Maria Rilke
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring,… — Jack London
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. — Oscar Wilde
FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our… — Rainer Maria Rilke
On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars… — Chris Cleave
now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang — Erin Hunter
We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the… — Chris Cleave
It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years. — Rick Riordan
As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but… — John Green
Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself. — Charles Bukowski
He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and… — Susanna Clarke

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