Every night Quote by Sebastian Junger

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

— Carol Lynn Pearson

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only…

— Anonymous

I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

— Oscar Wilde

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

— Anonymous

“[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and misguided journalism.…

— Jonathan M. Katz

People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say…

— Lisa See

The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with…

— Anonymous

Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack…

— Jeffrey Sachs

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

— Aminatta Forna

There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given…

— Marianne Williamson

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but…

— Roger Bannister