Quotes About Survival

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I entered a Taliban compound first, I played the odds in my head.

As with so many other aspects of our lives, we were never prepared for trouble. We just tried like hell to get out of the way when it came.

The next time someone shoots at you… try ducking.

Sometimes the only difference between life and death is the ability to retain the smallest scrap of hope.

It was a law of nature that only the strongest survived, and the weakest had better get the hell out of the way.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings, so you can get things done.

Being ostracized was status quo for her. She'd survive.

Yes, she, Claire Parks, who by all rights should have been dead these many years, her bleached bones rotting in the cold ground, was turned on. Waves of heat rolled through her body in liquid surges. The heat became almost incandescent in her breasts and in her loins, but her entire body burned and tingled with heat and life.

Death didn't miss you because

And then it finally did happen. I just lay there in shock. It hurt so bad, and I thought, "God, please, let me die." As he put himself inside me, I wanted to scream for help, but there was no one to help me. I had nowhere to hide. My mother's room, my little sister's embrace, Uncle Fred, Uncle Warren, nothing and no one would save me, and so I lay there silently, staring at the cracks in the ceiling, watching a part of me die.

Dale forced me the two steps to the truck and pushed me into the drivers' seat. The moment he started around to the passenger's side I got out and ran. He caught up with me easily and with the barrel of the gun drew me back to the truck. We did that dance three times before he figured out to push me in through the passenger's side

Out of sight, out of mind. It's how i cope.

I hear cavemen lose their alpha if they go without food for too long.

I'd been eleven when my father disappeared and eighteen when my mother was murdered. Now, I'm twenty-eight

In medicine, it is essential to rule out diseases that can kill, and then move on to those that may only make you wish you were dead.

We're here and we prey on you

All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

I was used to shooting beer cans off the back of an old washing machine, or at things that ran away from me that I intended to eat—not things that ran toward me with the intent of eating me. I'd found that to be a significant difference.

If I wasn't so happy he was alive, I would've killed him.

love doesn't put food on the table. It doesn't keep a family safe.

my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

Is survival sometimes about death and rebirth? Egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly?

beginning. In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.