Quotes About Survival

I don't want to die without any scars.

I don't want to die without any scars.

What doesn't kill you, ruins a part of you.

Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded.

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.

If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance.

You ever notice how sometimes, in the middle of July, right downtown, you'll see a flower poking up through a crack in the asphalt. And you think, What a stupid place to set down roots. It'll get run over, or it'll dry up and blow away. But it hangs on, and it grows, and it blooms. Somehow, against the odds, it finds what it needs and it makes that place better for being there.

Every time I think I've lost everything, I find there's still something else to lose.

You don't have to understand, you just have to survive.

I'm not going to let you hit me anymore," Han said quietly. "I've already had one beating today. That's enough.

It's easy to die, Mageling . . . It's staying alive that's hard work.

It's not just the real, but the perspective of real that counts. If people perceive you as weak, then you are weak, even if it's a survival strategy.

In his experience, the evil lived on while the innocent died.

Why did he deserve to live when everyone around him died?

Come on! We've had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-that's my motto. I'm counting on bieng faster than them.

Aku masih memimpin satu revolusi, sekalipun hanya revolusi dari "tuntutan yang semakin meningkat". Ini berarti hidup menurut hukum revolusi: hantam lawan-lawanmu. Membunuh atau dibunuh. Memenjarakan atau dipenjarakan.

Bahkan seekor cacing pun kalau terluka, akan menggeliat-geliat dan melawan.

And for a moment there, despite the bruising, despite the snarled dirty hair, despite her sunburned skin and the suffering in her eyes that she refused to let defeat her, she was one of the prettiest things he'd ever seen. ~Dallas and Amy~

But it seems that in the end all that matters is finding a way to survive the grief and trusting in the goodness of life beyond the pain.

While he described his projects to me, I listened to him without being able to forget that he would not survive the week. What madness on his part to speek of the future, of his future! But once I had left, once I was outside, how to avoid thinking that after all, the difference was not so great between the mortal and the moribound? The absurdity of making plans is only a little more obvious in the second case.

Het is omdat we allemaal oplichters zijn dat we elkaar verdragen. Iemand die het liegen niet aanvaardt zal de grond onder zijn voeten zien verdwijnen: we zijn biologisch gedwongen tot het onjuiste.

I have wed twice, sir, and been widowed twice. No man survives his nuptial night with me, it appears, and you, sir, have been too kind to deserve such a fate.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

Yes, that was the unbearable thing: having to go on, after your life has been ripped apart, while you struggle to understand how in a split second the whole world has unbelievably changed.