Survivor Quotes
326 Survivor quotes by 276 unique authors
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It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has…
— Tori Amos
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Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter…
— Tori Amos
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The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system…
— Unknown Author
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Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle…
— Unknown Author
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We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.
— Peter Jennings
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The time has come for those nations that rely on the force of nuclear armaments to respectfully heed the voices of peace-loving people, not least…
— Iccho Itoh
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To all the survivors out there, I want them to know that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever knew. We survived, that…
— Loung Ung
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This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to…
— Kofi Annan
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Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is…
— Carl Sagan
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I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays — they may have struck him as just another…
— Calvin Trillin
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If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played…
— Ernie Harwell
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War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces, the sound of…
— Zainab Salbi
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An important documentary that sheds light on one of the most terrifying realities in the U.S. today—the commercial sexual exploitation of young girls. TRICKED is…
— Rachel Lloyd
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I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive,…
— Jean-Claude Izzo
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The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us…
— Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
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So far, I am a cancer survivor, but cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor…
— Kathryn Joosten
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So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely…
— Paul Fussell
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It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.
— Tom Spanbauer
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Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to…
— Bernie Siegel
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Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today.…
— Laurence Gonzales
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The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is…
— Tori Amos
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Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
— Eddie Bracken
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In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but…
— Carl Zimmer
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There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.
— Angelina Jolie
Who Wrote These Survivor Quotes
276 authors contributed a total of 326 Survivor Quotes, led by these top contributors: