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Within a couple of weeks even earthquake survivors return to their normal level of unfounded optimism. — Daniel M. Gilbert

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner. — Judith Lewis Herman

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another. — Max Bemis

Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim. — Susan Forward

He and I had always felt as if we were fellow survivors from some vanishing age or land, in the gibbering swamp of mediocrity around us. — Ayn Rand

Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims' hearts and minds. "You're not worthy" is one of them. — Carolyn Byers Ruch

We're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are. — Jennifer Egan

Survivors feel unsafe in their bodies. Their emotions and their thinking feel out of control. They also feel unsafe in relation to other people. — Judith Lewis Herman

Because the reality of death has not yet penetrated awareness, survivors can appear to be quite accepting of the loss. — Joan Didion

Deep connection is the antidote to madness. — Stefan Molyneux

Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them. — Brandon Sanderson

I like drama. My first movie that I did, 'Soul Survivors', was a drama, and I'm just drawn to that; that's sort of my forte. — Melissa Sagemiller

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal. — Chuck Palahniuk

Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors. — Robert Anton Wilson

I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal. — Ralph Webster

Survivors learn early on that tears are a luxury for the protected. — Elizabeth Isaacs

I can sit in denial of my life because in looking around I see how lucky I am to have survived it. — K. Farrell St. Germain

Like most cancer survivors, lived with uncertainty. — John Green

I'm a survivor. And I say this with so much pride I could burst into a million tiny pieces at your feet. — Trish Kaye Lleone

As part of the healing process, change your perception of yourself from "victim" to that of "advocate" and "survivor. — Don Easton

Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life — Lynette Gould

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. — Pearl S. Buck

Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after. — S. Kelley Harrell

People do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection — Natascha Kampusch

God can never be found guilty of a natural catastrophe as long as survivors keep testifying that he was with them the whole time. — Daniel Ramalho

SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies! — Jane Wiedlin

You kill yourself when you hate. It's the worst disease in the world. — William Schiff

As if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off. — Christopher Moore

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet. — Jonathan Sacks

Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55 — Marlene Steinberg

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors. — Robert Fulghum

Survivors lived with their mistakes. — Nora Roberts

The Nazis understand everything except humour. — Mary Berg

...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim. — Mike Lew

It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim's response. — David Yeung

It's one thing knowing you people cheering you on, yet another to know they have walked in your footsteps. — Christine Magnus Moore

On a sub, you know, there's no place for things to drain to. The survivors claimed that the blood was knee-deep all through the submarine. — Neal Stephenson

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Even in death, her mother was winning. — Noorilhuda

The dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors ... — Rachel Vincent

No matter what we survivors like to tell ourselves about the afterlife, when someone dies, everything is over. — Jodi Picoult

The more we lose, the more we become the survivors. — Carrie Ryan

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence. — Lena Dunham

You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors. — Michael Scott

This world isn't a fair place, because we never know how much time we've really got. — Zoe Cruz

Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. — Thomas Mann

Jesus, Lacey. You just scared me half to death."
I forced a laugh. "Only half? Damn. — Violet Cross

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty. — Stefan Molyneux

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices. — Susan Howe

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

Don't count on others for help. In the end each of us is in this alone. The survivors are those who know how to look out for themselves. — Drew Karpyshyn

Abuse doesn't define you. — C. Kennedy

It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story. — Tom Spanbauer

Fools and the dead are not governed by logic. Survivors are. — Karen Marie Moning

Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. — Joan Didion

Admit it, "Lord I'm Not Done Yet"
Live it, "Lord I'm Not Done Yet"
Shout it, "Lord I'm Not Done Yet — Phyllis Lomax Singh

I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us. — Ralph Webster

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me! - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman — Deana J. Driver

It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know? — Jenna Brooks

!!!!!!!!!!NO TRESPASSING!!!!!!!!!!
All trespassers will be shot on sight. All survivors will be shot again. — SAS Institute

Don't judge yourself by what others did to you. — C. Kennedy

We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something. — Margaret Atwood

Have you had contact with any other survivors?"
"Only one," the Alderaanian senator said grimly. "Lock onto my coordinates. He's waiting for you. — Matthew Woodring Stover

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

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back. — Christian Louboutin

There is no cheating in war; there are only survivors and victims. — Brent Weeks

What's retaliate?" asked Aphasia.
"It means, kill most of the enemy, and let the survivors apologies. — Paul Cornell

Let's just day love isn't easy. even when you're the sole survivors of a plane crash and you have the hots for each other. — Rebecca Serle

He doesn't hurt us anymore."
Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore. — Melanie O'Shea

As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out. — Etgar Keret

Don't underestimate the Canadians, I always say. They seem all nice and polite and apologetic, but when it comes right down to it, they're survivors. — Karen McQuestion

Always trust in proven survivors. — Peter F. Hamilton

Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants. — Jon Krakauer

The survived souls give strength to the suffering souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's one thing knowing you have people cheering you on, yet another to know they've walked in your footsteps. — Christine Magnus Moore

It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing — Temple Emmet Williams

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. — Frank Gifford

They were known to pillage and plumage leaving few survivors — Maia Starr

I wasn't the kind of girl who liked to wait around to be rescued. — Violet Cross

If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped - unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family. — Phil Klay

Look at me, here I am. Hitler is nothing but ashes. — Annette Libeskind Berkovits

Only survivors are allowed the luxury of sadness. — Mike Mullin

Nice Girl Syndrome: Nice girls suffer from "the disease to please" - they put their needs behind everyone else's. — Beverly Engel

I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her. — Helen Gurley Brown

Something deep inside of me speaks with the voice of the psycho: For who could ever love a beast? — Zoe Cruz

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors. — Anthony Marra

I understand well the peculiar guilt of tragedy's survivors. — Kate Morton

Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to. — Chris Cleave

He'd expected more complaints, but even Wylan had simply put his head down and walked. They're all survivors, Matthias understood. They adapt. — Leigh Bardugo

Scars are badges of strength and courage. They tell the story of what we have endured. Only survivors wear them. — Kaki Warner

Kate! Get some ice on that ankle or it's going to swell to the size of Luke's head. Then neither of you will be able to get through the front door. — Violet Cross

I sometimes continue to see myself in split ways; it causes me trouble and contributes to a lack of satisfaction with myself. — Maureen Brady

Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone. — C. Kennedy

It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso — Patsy Asuncion

We laughed the laugh of women untethered, finally, from their origins. — Lidia Yuknavitch

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors. — Laurie Holden

Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else. — Dean Koontz

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors. — David Ben-Gurion