#viv

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph. ↗

— Michael Scott

#nicholas-flamel #niten #sophie #survival #triumph

You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot but she was so strong, so compassionate. I asked her how she could be the way she was, and you know what she told me?" Hadley shook her head. "She said, 'You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours. ↗

— Erica Bauermeister

#joy #strength #survival #courage

I might not be physically strong. But I do believe that to survive, I need to be strong-willed. Which is more important in life? ↗

— Michelle Horst

#courage #strength #strength-and-courage #survive #courage

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in... ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life #survival #death

Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#curse #death #harry-potter #mad-eye-moody #survive

Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing. ↗

— Steve Voake

#optimism #survival #death

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

#grief #loss #love #strength #survival

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

#survivor-syndrome #death

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster. ↗

— Robert Fanney

#elves #life #luthiel #mithorden #monsters

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#death