Quotes About Survival

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

My parents were severe alcoholics. When I was about 17 years old, I finally left home. It wasn't a choice that I made; it was basically like my parents were gone.

I see myself as a Shark.

We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.

I have created a shell around me, in the good and the bad moments.

Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.

If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.

I know I'm going to shoot a leopard.

If I shoot it, I'm gonna eat it.

Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.

Chemo is awful!

When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe.

I have the backbone of an eel.

I definitely don't feel like I'm watching ballet during 'Raze.'

My father was murdered when I was 12 years old. It was just me and my mother and my brother at the time. My brother was a little bit older than me and he left, so it was just me and my mom for a bit in Baltimore.

It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.

I was very lucky that I didn't end up a basket case.

Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.

I'm kind of scared of bears.

These qualities are beautifully encapsulated in the famous statement of Victor Frankl, himself a survivor of Auschwitz (and a neurologist and psychologist): "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." MBSR

With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," Hall observed. "The trick is to get back down alive.