Quotes About Survival

Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.

A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.

It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?

Kill us today or you'll have to kill us tomorrow.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

One of the Baathists once told me, "If you're not careful, I'll have you put away," and those words meant death.

Not all of me shall die.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.