Survival Of The Human Soul Quotes

Quotes tagged as "survival-of-the-human-soul" Showing 1-10 of 10
Samuel Beckett
“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

C. JoyBell C.
“As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires.”
C. JoyBell C.

Janet Rebhan
“I’m a survivor. And like the moon, I have a feeling it would take a truly spectacular event to keep me from taking my place in the scheme of things, waxing, waning, and eclipsing notwithstanding.”
Janet Rebhan, Finding Tranquility Base

Carl Novakovich
“In twenty-four hours we have gone through more than anyone else has - I'm sure of it. But does that bind two people? Or does that just make us survivors?”
Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb

Slavenka Drakulić
“Look now,' Vesna's mother continued, 'what do you know, a civil war might break out any minute: Serbs would fight with Croats, Czechs would fight with Slovaks, Hungarians would fight with Jews. how can you be sure of anything?'

'But, Mother, if this happens, then it will such big trouble that nobody would think about a shortage of pantyhose,' protested Vesna.

'You'd be surprised, my dear, to know that people have to live and survive during wars, too. Besides, how do you think we survived communism?”
Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

“She was a beautiful who had survived the ugliest nightmares.”
Mishi McCoy

Jane Wilson-Howarth
“Wherever there was a scrap of soil amongst the ravaged crags, emaciated trees struggled to cling on: a poignant metaphor for the way so many Nepalis eke out an existence, defiantly surviving on less than nothing.”
Jane Wilson-Howarth, A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas