Quotes About Survival

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

When you stop fighting, that's death.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

Poverty is the worst form of death.

Living without protecting what needs to be protected is the same as death.

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

I don't want to die without any scars.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.