Quotes About Survival

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

The monster nevers dies.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.

There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

Quizá lo hayas olvidado, pero ni siquiera en Nuremberg sentenciaron a todo el mundo a morir.

She knew all she needed to know about the history of the human race: the ruthless and the defenseless. She didn't need the dates and the names. The ruthless and the defenseless, there's the whole fucking deal.

It's not being angry that's important, it's being angry about the right things. I told her, Look at it from the Darwinian perspective. Anger is to make you effective. That's its survival function. That's why it's given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.

The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it—either that or you were sunk.

He is survived by the ghost of his mother; Yetta, of Beth Something-or-other Cemetery, Neptune, New Jersey, who haunted him unceasingly during the last year of his life.

Something always came along to make you keep living

intenté escribir lo que fue la «historia de mi vida» en los bosques, inmediatamente después de mi fuga del campo de concentración.

All who drink of this treatment recover in a short time, except those whom it does not help, who all die," he wrote. "It is obvious, therefore, that it fails only in incurable cases.

the descendants of today's raped and mutilated victims will arise to seek vengeance on the avengers.

Viktor Frankl, who spent time in one of Hitler's camps, said, "Despair is suffering without meaning.

As Solzhenitsyn elegantly expressed it in his classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, faith in God may not get you out of the camp, but it is enough to see you through each day.

I have learned the power of surviving.

In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.

Life is long, and if a woman survives, she can take her pleasures one way or another.

You don't get to be a favorite at a tyrant's court without beheading your principles every day.

She smiled an empty bitter smile that did not reach her eyes, 'Do you think it can be worse than this? I cannot be charged with treason, I am the Queen of England, I am England. I cannot be divorced, I am the wife of the King. He has run mad this spring and he will recover by autumn. And all I have to do is get through this summer.' 'The Boleyn summer,' I said.