Terry Kiser Quotes

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

I've always believed in survival.

I had a choice whether to live or die, and I chose to live.

I am a fighter; I will keep fighting and will never give up.

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

The man who runs may fight again.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

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

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

I don't intend to die.

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die.

When one must, one can.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.