Quotes About Survival

Fear is the key to human nature.

A volte ho l'impressione che se davvero ho un talento non è di natura letteraria. Il mio è piuttosto un talento per la pura e semplice sopravvivenza. Sono sopravvissuto a tre matrimoni naufragati, alla perdita dei figli, alla guerra, alla tubercolosi, al marxismo, all'alcolismo, alla nevrosi e ad anni di scrittura da freelance. Sono troppo cocciuto e miserabile perché mi si possa far fuori, mi sa». - W.L.Gresham

Los negros han sido el principal instrumento, carne de flecha en las batallas, suelo para caminar sobre las ciénagas, paño del sudor y punta de lanza de las expediciones más riesgosas, alimentos de tigres y caimanes en las exploraciones a lo desconocido

Exit, pursued by a bear.

The world is grown so bad that wrens make pray where eagles dare not perch

The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.

Lady Macduff: [To her son] Sirrah, your father's dead: And What will you do now? How will you live? Son: As birds do, mother. Lady Macduff: What, with worms and flies? Son: With what I get, I mean. and so do they

upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, till famine cling thee.

Humanity must perforce prey upon itself, like monsters of the deep.

Poor bird! Thou 'dst never fear the net nor lime, The pitfall nor the gin.

A man is never undone till he be hang'd.

Sirrah, your Father's dead: And what will you do now? How will you live? Son: As birds do, mother. L. Macd: What with worms and flies? Son: With what I get, I mean; and so do they.

treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do - by the skin of our teeth.

An extermination center can only manufacture corpses; a society of total domination creates a world of the living dead...

The libido also made an early exit, as it does in most major illnesses—it is the superfluous need of a body in beleaguered emergency.

sense of the triumph of life over death is at the core of The Myth of Sisyphus with its austere message: in the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do—by the skin of our teeth.

If there are Jews in this group, you have no right to live more than two weeks.' Then he said, 'Any nuns here? Like the priests, you have one month. All the rest, three months.

William W. Johnstone

saying something in German, then at the mountain man's

by Matt Jensen, who had himself

could still be alive

At least, I did. And I think Chester did, too. In World War II. It's something every combat vet has to live with. Once a person has learned how to survive, and what must be done, that instinct lies just below the surface, very thinly covered with a civilized veneer.

William W. Johnstone