“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”— George R.R. Martin, amazon.com
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”— Vicki Harrison, thoughtcatalog.com
“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“Surviving your 20s is sometimes nothing more glamorous than just holding on for dear life on the back of an inner tube like a kid being whipped around by a speedboat…And your only choice of survival is to just let go.”— Paul Angone, amazon.com
“Scars aren’t there to loudly announce, ‘I’ve been through more!’ But rather, they quietly whisper, ‘You survived.”— Marina Miller, thoughtcatalog.com
“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”— Sherman Alexie, books.google.com
“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, amazon.com
“...because once you've got one scar on your face or your heart, its only a matter of time before someone gives you another - and another - until a day doesn't go by when you aren't being bashed senseless, nor a town that you haven't been run out of, and you get to be such a goddamn mess that finally…”— Nick Cave, goodreads.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“I could be healed by the sheer courage of continuing to live. I could heal myself.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.”— Banana Yoshimoto, amazon.com
“I think the media is really comfortable reading about trans women of color as victims after they die, but if we have the audacity to survive, we are immediately criminalized; that is what the system does.”— Laverne Cox, inthesetimes.com