Survival Quotes

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, a...

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My...

Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more: the belief that any patterns exist. ...

Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or...

you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but i...

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security syst...

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigration ev...

Success is survival.

What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!"I wish I knew!" t...

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the g...

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.""As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's le...

I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we w...

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence...

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

... the burrowing wasp, which in order to provide a supply of fresh meat for her offspring after her...

Surviving Is the only warWe can afford

Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: ...

Sauve qui peut. To survivewe’d all turn thiefand rascal, or so says the fox,with her coat of an eleg...

She’s a lean vixen: I can seethe ribs, the slytrickster’s eyes, filled with longing and desperation,...

Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for thei...

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do conf...

They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this ven...

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impracti...

, And you, ye stars,Who slowly begin to marshal,As of old, the fields of heaven,Your distant, melanc...

Unlike its human counterparts, an army of zombies is completely independent of support. It will not ...

My grandfather often felt frustrated or baffled by my grandmother's illness, but when it came to the...

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden term...

Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a ...

When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up...

Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize...

Daddy," she says again, this time putting more of a needy whine into her voice. It is the thing that...

It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the th...

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrou...

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman ...

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longe...

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the wor...

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals ...

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and w...

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been pre...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival firs...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival firs...

These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.

Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke kn...

I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more s...

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only ro...

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who deci...

The history of the own that is grasped on too small a scale and the foreign that is treated too badl...

You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was opt...

Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with ...

A law of survival, Ragle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Ad...

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not: we...

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few...

We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we ...

The conviction that life has a purpose is rooted in every fibre of man, it is a property of the huma...

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himsel...

Quite rapidly Etta became acquainted with the realities of poverty in one of its loneliest forms -- ...

There seemed no answer. He wasn't resigned to anything, he hadn't accepted or adjusted to the life h...

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body ...

The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i...

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Claudius, you're luckier than you realize. Guard your appointment jealously. Don't let anyone usurp ...

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily di...

When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, th...

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open gr...

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily di...

When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, th...

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open gr...

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily di...

When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, th...

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open gr...

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily di...

When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, th...

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open gr...

As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravin...

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinar...

Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the ti...

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.

Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.

And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned...

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase w...

I would close my eyes and dream of something strong, dream of horses exploding, rising into the air,...

The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indiff...

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.