"Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together."

Survival, Love, Support, Emotion

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"Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together."

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"The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Survival, Hunger, Struggle, Life

"From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Survival, Uncertainty, Journey, Fear, Desperation

"When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it."

David Levithan, American Author

Survival, Support, Hope, Strength

"Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors!"

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Survival, Death, Emotion, Life

"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Survival, Happiness, Brilliant, Work

"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."

Stephen King, American Author

Survival, Education, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die."

David Levithan, American Author

Survival, Death, Life, Struggle

"A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Survival, Endurance, Life, Strength

"If we can somehow survive this world, we would've achieved something in this world."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

Survival, World, Achievement, Hope

"When in doubt, choose to live."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Survival, Inspirational, Today, Life, Power

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"All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness."

Honesty

"All's well that ends well.''Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said.Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. 'There has to be an end somewhere. It's just that nothing's labeled "This is the end." Is the top rung of a ladder labeled "This is the last rung. Please don't step higher than this'?"Aomame shook her head.'It's the same thing,' Tamaru said.Aomame said, 'If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.'Tamaru nodded. 'And even if it doesn't' -- he made a falling gesture with his finger -- 'the end is right there."

Philosophy

"I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. I'm weird like that."

Connection

"When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world."

Reality

"Only by learning the truth-whatever that truth might be-could people be given the right kind of power."

Knowledge

"She was seriously in love, but she never made demands."

Relationship

"I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.''That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it?' But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down."

Peace

"I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy."

Happiness

"It was a strange feeling, like touching a void."

Emotion

"In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity."

Belief