Rabih Alameddine Quotes

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Surviving means being born over and over.

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.

I think all the history of the Jewish people is about adaptation.

When you bottom out, you have to stand up and get going again.

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

I don't know... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die?

It's in our blood to start again.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

Survival, I know, is to begin again.

I think in life the key thing is just to fight really hard to make sure something survives. If it looks like you've done everything you can to avoid failure, just move forward, move on and learn from it.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.