Quotes About Survival

C-bombs destroyed most of Asia and North America back in the Twentieth Century.

Una legge di sopravvivenza, aveva detto Ragle. Chi rifiutava di rispondere ai nuovi stimoli era destinato a perire. Adattarsi o morire... Nuova versione di una regola senza tempo.

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

Just when you thought that things couldn't get any worse, you find out that they've always been a lot worse than you thought they were. And then they get worse.

Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.

If I told you half of what he's done to keep us alive and safe, well, you wouldn't imagine it could be true.

I lied and lied, Asriel… Let's not wait too long, I can't bear it… We won't live, will we? We won't survive like the ghosts?" "Not if we fall into the abyss. We came here to give Lyra time to find her dæmon, and then time to live and grow up. If we take Metatron to extinction, Marisa, she'll have that time, and if we go with him, it doesn't matter.

She felt half inclined to lie down and die. But her body wanted food and drink, and she took this as a sign that her body at least wanted to go on living.

Life is hard, Mr Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.

Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.

Nothing could appear to be more human than refusing to believe extinction possible so long as you were encircled by luscious eggplants and ripe tomatoes[..]

Anger is to make you effective. That's its survival function. That's why it's given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.

Anybody can run away and survive, the trick was to stay and survive

The Israelis will have saved their state by destroying their people.

Civilwarland in Bad Decline

Victor Frankl? Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning?

A song of tough love for a generation whose eyes have moved fish-like to the sides of its head, forward vision usurped by a numb need to survive the now, side-placed eyes scanning for any garde of which to be avant .

There are no atheists in foxy holes.

Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind. . . Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe.

we are what we are my boy and wolves is what we are

The world was changing, and he was running out of places to hide.

A man must fight for life even when he believes all is lost.