Quotes About Survival

A large spear from my right lunged past and almost grazed my back, and stuck firmly into the soil. The two men from whom it came appeared in an opening in the forest only ten yards off and bolted, one looking back over his shoulder as he ran. As they are expert with the spear I don't know how it missed, except that he was too sure of his aim and the good hand of God was upon me.

Note that having a large brain is biologically costly: the brain is an expensive organ to run, and large ones consume many precious calories (the human brain accounts for a whopping 20 percent of our energy expenditure).

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

Las mujeres que elegían a los hombres en parte por su fortaleza y habilidades físicas tenían más posibilidades de sobrevivir y reproducirse.

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

Many times I have thanked God for a bite of raw dog.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Great God! This is an awful place.

I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

I'll tell you the only way to survive: Ask God to place a semi-permeable shield around your heart: One that only allows what He loves to enter.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger.

The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

Got shot 5 times but I'm still breathing... living proof there's a God if you need a reason.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.