Surviving Quotes

263 quotes by 251 authors

Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let… — Lisa Kleypas
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise… — Chinua Achebe
Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the… — Paulo Coelho
The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone youâ€™d ever left behind riding on your shoulders. — Paolo Bacigalupi
This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as… — James Frey
What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to… — Richard Ford
The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene — Allen Ginsberg
The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for… — Susan Cain
We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead,… — Jared Diamond
I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving. — Julie Anne Peters
I've never felt like this before, with anyone. It's against the rules of surviving. — Jessica Sorensen
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in… — Adrienne Rich
[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children. — Erma Bombeck
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida
I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life. — Kay Redfield Jamison
There is more to life than surviving. — Cassandra Clare
So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together,… — Rick Riordan
She tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her… — Rick Riordan
I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out… — Ray Bradbury

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