Best Survivors Sayings

153 Survivors quotes by 137 unique authors

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. — Johan Huizinga
The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors. — Robert Fulghum
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors. — Ernest Hemingway
Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know. — Yoko Ono
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors. — David Ben-Gurion
Survivors have a difficult time expressing their feelings. They are more accustomed to minimizing their pain and hiding how they really feel, both from themselves… — Beverly Engel
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because… — Dan Wells
The remains of great and good men, like Elijah's mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors, that as their works follow… — Matthew Henry
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.… — Mary Wollstonecraft
If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. — Bertrand Russell
Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence. — Lena Dunham
When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill me,… — Loung Ung
Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody - every time you turn around, 15,000 survivors meet here,… — David Duke
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner
We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk… — Glenn Close
People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors. — Geraldine Ferraro
In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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 all-time survivors. — Jim Kaat
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that. — Colin Farrell
Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame… — Mary Norris
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course. — Earl A Grollman
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. — Lois McMaster Bujold

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