Abbi Glines Quotes

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

There is my favorite quote that I ever heard from her [Lori Petty],... 'Things can happen to you, but they don't have to happen to your soul.'

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

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 am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.