Joan Rivers Quotes

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.

How many mistakes can one life survive?

That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger.

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.

The scars will take me far, they always do.

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

It's been stress and drama for a long time now, man. So much has happened. I got shot five times by some dudes who were trying to rub me out. But God is great. He let me come back. But, when I look at the last few years, it's not like everybody just did me wrong. I made some mistakes. But I'm ready to move on.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

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

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

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

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

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.