Sabaa Tahir Quotes

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

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

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

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

The most terrible things end, at last.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.

We were not defeated. We had been refugees. Now we were freedom fighters.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

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

I am here today as an example to all that have gone through a personal hell or are going through it right now, whatever that hell might be for you, that you can become whole again. In fact, you can become stronger than you ever thought possible.

My family has equally suffered abductions, attacks and life threats, but I have continued my struggle for justice.

I want to share the things I've done, the things I've survived, the things I've struggled through.

As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a sense of purpose.

I've been sued, harassed, abused, but I've held my own.

History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.

Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.