Top 439 Surviving Quotes & Sayings

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

There is more to life than surviving.

The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

Not actively surviving is passively dying.

For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.

I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.

Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building's foundations are a bit more substantial than mine.

Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

But part of surviving is being able to move on.

Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

That is always what I've had to do in life: to show I am capable of surviving.

Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.

You are not living, you are surviving.

When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists.

Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Surviving in music is the same as surviving in a place like Knowle West - sometimes you need to be low-key, but sometimes you need to make your presence felt.

It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.

At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.

Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

I have learned the power of surviving.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

Every single thing I do... is just me surviving.

Simply surviving in this business is a feat.

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.

Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

Certainly survival is important- very important- but at some point surviving wasn't enough. I felt ready to complete my surviving journey and start thriving and just living.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

You're not surviving if you're not on social media, period.

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.

We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.

Surviving, that's my plan.

Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.

Life is about surviving loss.

The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents are unable to function effectively in the parenting role show more anxiety and depression, as well as sleep and health problems, than those whose parents have a strong support network and solid inner resources to rely on.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

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