Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

I found that life has to be edited to continue.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

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.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

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

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.

I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.

Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.

Losing a game is not a tragedy after experiencing border raids and having to eat beetles because you are out of rations.

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.

I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.