Quotes About Survival

The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles an hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.

That was the rock she was battered against.

the first leg of their journey from humanity to cattle; with sorting and feeding and starvation and suffocation and pestilence and death; with slave ship stenches and mutinies of crew and cargo; with the jettying of cargoes before the guns of British cruisers; with auction blocks and sales and profits and losses

They passed a dead man in a sitting position on a hummock, entirely surrounded by wild animals and snakes. Common danger made common friends. Nothing sought a conquest over the other.

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

If I had my accident maybe 10 years ago I wouldn't be here now. The technology we have now, the helmets, can save your life.

My accident - 15 centimetres right and nothing would have happened; 10 centimetres left and I would not be here.

You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.

I've learned to adapt to a situation, to make the best of it.

Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

I started adapting, and that's how I've been able to stay afloat all these years. It's important to be adaptable.

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.

I'm lucky to be alive.

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

Whatever happens, I'm going to adapt to it. I always been like that all my life.

Let's put it this way: The animal inside of me has not quieted down yet. It's still there. It's still fighting.

We're all animals.

I nearly got killed in a film, 'Patthar Ke Insaan.' I nearly lost my eyes another time and have been in many accidents in my career.