Laini Taylor Quotes

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

Better to suffer than to die.

For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Survival is triumph enough.

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

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

If you're going to die, then die. If you're going to live, then fight.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

I just want people to know that they can make it through hard times like I did.

We have all lost before and we will win again.

No matter what hard thing you may go through or what kind of pain you may go through there is still hope.