Survivors Quotes

…rape, incest, and me.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

In the next war the survivors will envy the dead.

We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from that.

In many ways, my life has begun before I was born. It began in the moment my mother Malka walked out of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

We licked the race haters in Europe, but the millions of Jewish dead cannot be restored to life

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

I could direct a very decent Holocaust film, but I don't have the same experience as a young boy who was rocked to sleep in the lap of a grandmother who had a tattooed number on her arm, who told him stories of the people who disappeared, the relatives she never saw again, as he drifted off with his cheek nestled next to that number.

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.

I’m no hero. Hero’s don’t return from war. Survivors do.

By not coming forward (about rape), you make yourself a victim forever.

The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our society.

I want survivors to know that healing is possible.

In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they shouldn't be that hero that stands out.

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

I never herd of a woman being raped. It is against our culture.

We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.

One woman violated is already too many but when I learned that it was one in three, the first thought in my head was "Why aren't more people talking about this?"