Quotes about Survival

Hardship can humble you, but it cannot break you unless you let it. Your instinct for survival will see you through if you're attuned to its frequency. Instinct will find a temporary stopgap without ever taking its sights off your larger goals. There's no greater way to hone your instincts than to overcome adversity.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.

I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord (Psalm 118:17).

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

Even if I wrote on nothing else, it would never be enough, even if all the survivors did nothing but write about their experiences, it would still not be enough. *Response when asked how much longer is he going to write about the Holocaust.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.

How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.

Viktor Frankl, who spent time in one of Hitler's camps, said, "Despair is suffering without meaning.