Survived Quotes

“I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than "I survived it.”
― Lisa Mantchev, So Silver Bright

“I thought I would die without you, in reality I was reborn...”
― Seja Majeed, The Forgotten Tale of Larsa

“Live for what you love, and die for what you're unwilling to live without...”
― Seja Majeed, The Forgotten Tale of Larsa

“Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth...”
― Seja Majeed, The Forgotten Tale of Larsa

“The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Secrets are truths that show what we’ve been through—what we’ve survived.”
― Dannika Dark, Five Weeks

“We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...”
― Seja Majeed, The Forgotten Tale of Larsa

“Surviving is about need. Living is about want.”
― Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants

“Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived. To get a sense that we have already journeyed through something - survived it, experienced it - is often so much easier and less messy than the task of currently living through something.”
― Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

“Scars are proof that you struggled, fought, and survived.”
― Avijeet Das

“Reread your old words to remind yourself how strongly you survived everything which you once thought would break you into pieces.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and against the starvation. We survived because we trusted one another.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“When a person is deserted, he learns by default, how to survive.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“ "I...I still—"
"Can't believe it?" Rafe shrugged. "I'm guessing a regular person wouldn't have survived. But we're part cat so maybe falls aren't so bad. I think I lost one of my nine lives though." He twisted to look at the stab wound. "Maybe two."
I threw my arms around his neck and kissed him, and when I did, I knew he was real—the heat of him, the smell of him, the feel of him, the taste of him so incredibly real that it surpassed anything my memory could conjure up. He wrapped his arms around me and kissed me back, and it was like every other amazing kiss he'd given me, multiplied ten-fold. I kissed him until I couldn't breathe, and then I kissed him a little more, until I had to pull back, gasping.
"I have got to die more often," he said. And he grinned, that incredible blaze of a grin that made me kiss him again.”
― Kelley Armstrong, The Calling

“A cold heart is only reminding me of the summer to come once I survived the spring.”
― Laura Chouette

“How do survivors feel? Relieved and grateful, perhaps. As excited about their saved life as if it were a gift that the rustling fingers feverishly unwrap from its packaging on Christmas morning and whatever is underneath: you are happy. This is how it should be when you have survived the worst. Far from the crippling horror we were feeling.”
― Sima B. Moussavian, Tomorrow death died out: What if the future were past?

“When you have been a victim of constant hunger, you learn how to stop wasting food.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“I decided that if I survived I would never do what Father had done, never defer to anyone’s judgment or refuse to look clear-eyed at the world. I would never be so blind, never.
If I survived”
― Phyllis T. Smith, I Am Livia

“I know people that have had a lighting strike to a tree next to their home and their electronic products survived unscathed.”
― Steven Magee

“To survive life, you must not forget to sing.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Hurricane Ian damage in Florida was localized, some areas were trashed and others survived.”
― Steven Magee

“I have survived the high altitude ‘Denver International Airport Police’ experience!”
― Steven Magee

“Real.

This was real. I had survived; I'd made it out.

Unless it was a dream- just a fever-dream in Amarantha's dungeon and I'd awaken back in that cell, and-

I curled my knees to my chest. Real. Real.

I mouthed the words.

I kept mouthing them.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“It is always a bonus to come out of a severe storm alive and with the home still intact!”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 was my most feared enemy that could potentially kill me. I was vaccinated, developed a supplementing protocol for it and survived a COVID-19 infection. I now view it as a mild case of the flu.”
― Steven Magee

“You have walked through fire and survived; now you will rise from the ashes and thrive.”
― Phoenix Grace

“The mind repeats what it knows. The body remembers what it survived.”
― Laurence Galian, Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion