Quotes About Survival

Nenhuma palavra é adequada para o sofrimento causado pela fome. Até hoje eu tenho que mostrar a fome que escapei do seu alcance. Desde que parei de passar fome, literalmente como a própria vida. E quando eu como, fico trancada dentro do gosto de comer. Por sessenta anos, desde que voltei do acampamento, tenho comido contra a fome.

Half-starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.

E assim como eles, também os semimortos de fome não são de facto nem masculinos nem femininos, mas objectivamente neutros como objectos, talvez comuns-de-dois.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

It is my destiny to live forever, though my survival will bring final destruction to the human race. However, it is possible for me to be killed, and whether I live or die makes no great difference. In truth, death may be the only absolute freedom there is.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was actually engaged in Production, and that absurdity would, by quickly ending all human lives save those of the owners, put a term to the arrangement.

Sometimes you can't fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast.

She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.

So now get up.' Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard. His head turns sideways; his eyes are turned toward the gate, as if someone might arrive to help him out. One blow, properly placed, could kill him now.

Hunters, it is said, live longer than other men; they sweat hard and stay lean; when they fall into bed at night they are tired beyond all temptation; and when they die, they go to Heaven.

lucky, he knows now, not to have got in with lowlifes who would lead him to be branded or whipped, or to be one of the small corpses fished out of the river.

Há para tudo uma estação: uma estação para passar fome e uma estação para roubar.

He has always done what was needed to survive, and if his judgement of what was necessary was sometimes questionable. . . that is what it is to be young.

O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure

In the camp we saw our own people kill each other over a crust of bread. In the old days I used to think that religion did not matter much, that people could be good without it. That was not true in the camps. If you had no hope or faith to keep you human, you sank to the lowest depths. I'll practice my religion more faithfully now.

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

North Korea is perhaps the darkest place in the world. The country lacks electricity; everything is gray and monotone

Duniya mein rehna hai toh kaam kar pyare, Haath jod sabko salaam kar pyare, Varna yeh duniya jeene nahi degiKhane nahi degi, peene nahi degi (Do some work if you want to live in this world. Salute everyone and request them. Or else this world won't let you live. It won't let you eat or drink anything )

Being alive is sign of strength!

My comrades are alive right now!! The Exceeds are alive too!! Whether they've got magic or not, the important thing is that they're alive! These are lives, dammit!

you're lucky you can die!!

It was a little before noon on March 9, 1974, and I was on a slope about two hours away from Wakayama Point.