Suzanne Collins Quotes

The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.

If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

I've always believed in survival.

I'm still swimming.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

We will persevere, come life or death.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.