#survive

In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium. ↗

— Jonathan Larson

#bond #community #dangerous #day #death

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#comedy #defense #defense mechanism #i #mechanism

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#best #careers #feel #making #music

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ↗

— Anna Freud

#any #bad #been #creative #kind

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon. ↗

— John Travolta

#died #how #i #icon #james

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#decency #die #i #i believe #i believe that

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#enough #filmmaker #going #good #got

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

#falling-in-love #love #survived #swim #love

I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive. ↗

— Guy Sajer

#fortune #life #love #soldier #survive

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts