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Survival Quotes

Survival Quotes

Last updated: September 23, 2024

78 Survival Quotes organized by Most Popular

“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.”
— Harlan Ellison, Paingod: And Other Delusions
Tagged: Pain, Survival, Love, beauty, Sadness, Happiness
“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”
— Virginia Satir, The Satir Model: Family Therapy and Beyond
Tagged: Family, Survival, therapy, Psychologists, hugs, Love, Growth, Positivity
“Did ever occur to you that we don't wanna get in touch with our feelings? That actually feeling our feelings might make it impossible to survive in here?”
— Poussey Washington, Orange Is the New Black: "Season 2, Episode 11"
Tagged: OITNB, Prison, emotions, Apathy, Empty, Pain, Survival
“You never need to apologize for how you chose to survive.”
— Clementine Von Radics, Mouthful Of Forevers
Tagged: Survival, Life, Inspirational, strength, Growing Pains, perseverance
“You tilt your head back. You breathe. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. And you teach your sons and daughters there are sharks in the water. But the only way to survive is to breathe deep and dive.”
— Andrea Gibson, via Tumblr
Tagged: Brokenness, Love, Moving On, Letting Go, Broken Heart, My Favorites, Survival, Finding Strength
“You think I'm scared of death. I've done it a million times, and I'm fucking great at it. How many times have you died?”
— Maeve Millay, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trompe L'Oeil
Tagged: Death, Mortality, Survival, Resurrection
“The issue of hierarchy and hierarchical position is absolutely key. It’s key to evolutionary survival. It’s key to mate selection. It’s key to survival.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Jordan B Peterson | *Spring 2017* | full-length interview
Tagged: Hierarchy, Survival, Mate Selection
“Aren't you the guy who tried to

Hurt me with the word ‘goodbye’?

Though it took some time to survive you.”
— Dua Lipa, Dua Lipa – Don't Start Now
Tagged: Heartbreak, Survival, goodbye
“Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, have contributed to our strength. We’ve gotten through. We’re still here.”
— Willie Nelson, It's a Long Story: My Life
Tagged: Memories, tragic, strength, Survival, Overcoming
“They told me how despite having help in the house she would get up every day to cook and clean and work. And that it was impossible to stop her despite her organs failing one after another. Up until her body stopped working she didn’t. I started to realize I of all people understood her the most. Work isn’t a choice, not when it comes to surviving.”
— Monty Oum, Passing
Tagged: Workaholic, Dedication, Survival
“33 years ago my parents dragged our family here from the war on their own two feet, it was a matter of survival. We came to this country with no money, and not being able to speak the language. My mother pregnant with my older brother, and then myself a year after, found a job, learned the language, and provided for our family. My father who had suffered from post war syndrome was little help. So all I can remember of my mother in those early years was the she was never around. She was never around because she was busy fighting, she fought for our family to survive, because she had no choice. That’s why you work, because the alternative is unthinkable.”
— Monty Oum, Passing
Tagged: Survival, Immigration, Work
“I refuse to be anyone's survivor because I prefer to think of myself as a winner.”
— Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
Tagged: Survivors, Survival, Quote of the Moment
“If a fire causes a stampede to the unmarked exits, it'll have been well worth it for those who survive.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Fire, Stampede, Survival, Worth
“Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.”
— David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Tagged: Time, Patience, Survival
“He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.”
— Richard Adams, Watership Down
Tagged: Fighting, Bravery, Courage, Survival, Self-Reliance, Self-Confidence, Self-Trust, Living, Life
“...it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.”
— Leon C. Megginson, Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, Volume 44
Tagged: Survival, Survival of the Fittest, Adaptability, Evolution, Species, humans, human survival, species survival, Change
“If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.”
— Rod Serling
Tagged: Survival, Second Amendment
“It's like a spider in the toilet struggling for a survival. And even if you know it's not going to make it, you kind of root it for a while.”
— Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld, Season 3: The Cafe
Tagged: Spiders, Survival, Doom
“One day I'll remember. Remember everything that happened: the good, the bad, those who survived... and those that did not.”
— Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Tagged: Memories, Survival, dragon movies
“Horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.”
— Dean Koontz, Winter Moon: A Novel
Tagged: Horror, Memories, Death, Survival
“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.”
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant (Divergent Series)
Tagged: Brave, Survival, Courage
“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Depression, Survival, humans
“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”
— Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
Tagged: Depression, coping, Survival
“Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it.”
— Keary Taylor, What I Didn't Say
Tagged: Depression, Change, Survival
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, Survival, Suffering
“You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
— Brian Tracy, Realizing Your Potential
Tagged: Future, Survival, coping
“I survived because I remained soft, because I listened, because I wrote.”
— Chanel Miller, Know My Name
Tagged: Trauma, Survival, Writing, How to be a writer
“Every morning
the sun rises and you,
like the plants
covered in dew
in your garden
get a chance
to start again.”
— Nikita Gill,
Tagged: Your Soul Is A River, Poetry, strength, Finding Your Voice, Finding Strength, You Are Strong, Survival