Quotes About Survival

In a time of disaster you could baste newspapers to both sides of a cotton blanket and end up with a warm quilt. She knew a lot of things about disaster. She could manage.

we tell ourselves stories in order to live..

it is a network kept alive by people whose instincts tell them that if they do not keep moving at night on the desert they will lose all reason.

Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.

This was a California girl, and she was raised on a history that placed not much emphasis on why. She was never an idealist, and this pleased no one. She was tainted by survival. She came back from the other side with a story no one wanted to hear, a dispiriting account of a situation in which delusion and incompetence were pitted against delusion and incompetence of another kind, and in the febrile rhythms of San Francisco in the midseventies it seemed a story devoid of high notes.

Les naufrages

The sugary rhizomes of Stilbocarpa have saved the lives of many shipwrecked people who gnawed them in desperation, though they need to be cooked to be palatable. A strange side effect was that eating Stilbocarpa roots bleached the teeth, so that even men who had been addicted for years to chewing tobacco ended up with teeth as white as a child's.

Fierce loyalty. That's how the Kurds survived for two and a half thousand years while the Hitties and the Phrygians died out. Communal Loyalty.

The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne until

And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries-- escaped from their cages and hoping to get a taste of the sky -- usually end up back on the ground, plucked raw by their more conformist cousins

Wisdom isn't everything. Survival requires an element of trickery, Chaos, subterfuge. All qualities I possess (if I may say so) in abundance.

If you were to be stranded on a desert island, what three items would you take? I gave this frivolous answer: A cat, a hat and a piece of string.

Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.

Suspicacia y supervivencia son hermanas gemelas, así que perder una supone despedirse de la otra.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

Love's a tidal wave, she says. Because it sweeps you off your feet? I ask. No. Because it sucks you under and you drown. But sometimes, I point out, it's the only thing that keeps you afloat.

In reality, you don't ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.