Albert Camus Quotes

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've seen too much in life to give up.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

I've been through hell not totally unscathed, but I came out not too bad.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone.’ (Nykyrian)

I didn't drown. I didn't break.

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

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

I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

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.

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

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

I've always believed in survival.

We all survive more than we think we can.

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 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.

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.

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

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