Quotes About Survival

I believed that I was alone in my struggle and that my battle was one of survival. By

I knelt down, trying to put the many pieces of the letter back together again. It was impossible. I dumped the pieces of the letter in the trash, wishing my life would end. I truly believed, at that moment, that death would be better than my prospects for any kind of happiness. I was nothing but an "It.

That day I wished Mother would have mercy and kill me quickly. As

The only way to keep your head above water is to convince yourself you are going to make it.

day I vowed to myself that I would never, ever again give that bitch the satisfaction of hearing me beg her to stop beating me.

That day I vowed to myself that I would never, ever again give that bitch the satisfaction of hearing me beg her to stop beating me. In

I made a promise to myself that if I came out of my situation alive, I had to make something of myself.

Of all Mother's punishments, I hated the gas chamber game the most. Towards

The only way we can eradicate human behavior is to eradicate humans, and that strikes me as pretty extreme.

Is it true that Panrovians have a lot of children . . . because they figure there's another famine coming? -Cerebus

If your boat is sinking, you really don't care in which direction it's pointed!

You should be worried, says Hassan. I have seen worse monsters than you, Anderson. I have seen what nobody should see. I have felt what nobody should feel. I know what nobody should know. What would it be to me to see this knife in your throat? Nothing. What would it be for me to see you as dead as this deer? Nothing. What would it be to me to see you lying dead among the jetsam on the beach?

Ar manai, kad meil? gali pad?ti žmogui išgyti?

These supersurvivors radically deviate from their previous life paths, often transforming the worst thing that's happened to them into the best.

They made you hate everyone, even the ones who were like you. That is what they do, so the prisoners will not rise up against them.

That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.

People who attempted to end their lives, no matter how amateurishly they might do so at first, often got better at it, with the result that on the third, fourth or sixth try, they ended up on a slab with a coroner poking around their remains.

The oldest of North Korean labor camps, Bukchang had been hosting dissidents and alleged enemies of the state since the fifties .

en Washington no había realmente vencedores y vencidos, solo supervivientes.

David Baldacci

Then the man himself appeared. Carter Gray was looking chunkier than usual. From his sniper's post Stone instantly discerned why: body armor. That didn't bother Stone in the slightest since, as he'd told Finn, he always aimed for the head. People couldn't survive without a brain. Although it did seem that more than a few people in Washington managed to do so quite nicely.

saw it coming. See, they built me too good. They didn't figure in

you ran when it was fifty degrees below zero, your lungs would hemorrhage and you'd drown in your own engorged corpuscles.

Or convincing defense departments to buy expensive war toys that were never even used while ignoring the lesser-priced items, like body armor and night-vision goggles, that grunts on the ground actually relied on to survive.