"Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country."

Survival, Humor, Pain, Escape

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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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"This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?"

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"You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing."

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"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

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"Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea."

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"Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?"

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"Don't dare try to be heroes."

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"That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it."

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

"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."

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

"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!"

"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."

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

"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."

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

"When in doubt, choose to live."

Explore more quotes by S. A. Tawks

"This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?"

"You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing."

"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

"Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea."

"Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?"

"Don't dare try to be heroes."

"That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it."

"Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could."

"Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will."

"Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton."