Quotes About Survival

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

I've pretty much always lived paycheck to paycheck. I never considered it struggling, but it has always been a high-wire act.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

I do sometimes talk about my cancer because that's something people relate to a lot, as we're all going to die. Because I've been close to death and won, I have strong opinions about it, and I've learned how to discuss it and keep the energy high in the show.

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.

I grew up learning firsthand what it was like to flee communism and oppression.

Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.

Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived under oppression and they adapted to dealing with the fact that those freedoms were going to be cut off. They had to somehow make a life within all of those restriction, and they did.

Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded.

If you don't optimize for the consumer on the Internet, you're dead.

North Koreans are forced to work at state jobs in a moribund economy. Countless parents watch their children go to bed hungry. Many North Korean families feel they have no option but to try to escape.

The idea of eating one kind of food day in and day out, for some, is sometimes the only option.

Many comedians and comedy writers have shared the childhood experience of learning to joke to protect themselves from neighborhood bullies when challenge or physical defense were not among the sensible options.

My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.

I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

War is not beautiful. Sometimes you see action sequences where battles seem organized. I know that from how the Vikings fought. It's not beautiful. It's hard. It's hard work.

When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.