Survivor Quotes

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.

Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim.

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

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 changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.