{"quotes":[{"text":"The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.","author":"Paolo Bacigalupi","tags":["survivor-guilt","war"],"id":19621,"author_id":"Paolo+Bacigalupi"},{"text":"There comes a time for us not to just be survivors, but to be warriors. Yara, you have your life, and the chance to make the most of it. Don't run or hide from that challenge or let your guilt keep you from living your life. This gift is such a beautiful opportunity. Embrace it. Seize every opportunity from here on out. Live.","author":"Becca Vry","tags":["challenge","challenge-inspiration-motivation","holocaust-survivor","hopescapes","live","live-your-life","seize-every-opportunity","strength-and-courage","strength-through-adversity","survivor-guilt","survivors-of-war","syrian-civil-war","syrian-refugee","warrior","warrior"],"id":102818,"author_id":"Becca+Vry"},{"text":"Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn’t bring all their men home and wonder what they could have done differently to save them. When they get home they wonder if there’s something wrong with them because they find war repugnant but also thrilling. They hate it and miss it.Many of their self-judgments go to extremes. A comrade died because he stepped on an improvised explosive device and his commander feels unrelenting guilt because he didn’t go down a different street. Insurgents used women and children as shields, and soldiers and Marines feel a totalistic black stain on themselves because of an innocent child’s face, killed in the firefight. The self-condemnation can be crippling.The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015.","author":"David Brooks","tags":["ashamed","combat-ptsd","guilt","horror","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","shame","soldiers","survivor-guilt","veterans","war","war-trauma"],"id":153770,"author_id":"David+Brooks"},{"text":"They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay.","author":"Dalton Trumbo","tags":["coping-mechanism","denial","denial-of-reality","psychological-defense","survivor-guilt","trauma-survivors","traumatic-experiences"],"id":472825,"author_id":"Dalton+Trumbo"},{"text":"The wave of pure outrage blindsided me. I shouldn't be here, I thought. This is utterly fucked up. I should have been sitting in a garden down the road, barefoot with a drink in my hand, swapping the day's work stories with Peter and Jamie. I had never thought about this before, and it almost knocked me over: all the things we should have had. We should have stayed up all night together studying and stressing out before exams, Peter and I should have argued over who got to bring Jamie to our first dance and slagged her about how she looked in her dress. We should have come weaving home together, singing and laughing and inconsiderate, after drunken college nights. We could have shared a flat, taken off Interrailing around Europe, gone arm-in-arm through dodgy fashion phases and low-rent gigs and high-drama love affairs. Two of us might have been married by now, given the other one a godchild. I had been robbed blind.","author":"Tana French","tags":["grief","survivor-guilt"],"id":477601,"author_id":"Tana+French"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}