Quotes About Survival

No, there are a good many arguments ye might make about that, but in the end, such choices come down to one: You kill when ye must, and ye live with it after. I remember the face of every man I've killed, and always will. But the fact remains, I am alive and they are not, and that is my only justification, whether it be right or no.

There are ways of killing other than a knife or a gun, and there are things worse than physical death.' His tone softened. In Saint Anne, you pulled back from more than one kind of death, mo duinne, and never think I don't know it. ' He shook his head. 'Perhaps I do owe you more than you owe me, after all.

You have to understand," I said. "He—I—we were separated by the war, the Rising. Each of us thought the other was dead. I found him again only—my God, was it only four months ago?

For a moment, half blinded by dirt, I couldn't see Jamie at all. Then I spotted him. He was under the bear, one arm locked around its neck, his head tucked into the joint of the shoulder just under the drooling jaws.

The year after I was born," I said, "there was a great epidemic of influenza. All over the world. People died in hundreds and thousands; whole villages disappeared in the space of a week. And then came the other, my war.

One man, a Fraser of Lovat's regiment, escaped. He meant to die on Culloden Field, Roger whispered, But he didn't.

He had been attacked once, in camp somewhere in Scotland, in the days after Culloden. Someone had come upon him in the dark, and taken him from behind with an arm across his throat. He had thought he was dead, but his assailant had something else in mind. The man had never spoken, and was brutally swift about his business, leaving him moments later, curled in the dirt behind a wagon, speechless with shock and pain.

I'd lived long enough to realize that fear wasn't usually fatal—at least not by itself.

I am forsworn for the lives of those I love - I betray the names of honor that those I honor may survive.

As I have told many, the only goal my dad had for me was to keep me alive to reach the age of reason! He had no aspirations for me vis-a-vis education, wealth, or anything else!

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

I ate ants. They weren't that bad.

I was standing in the street with people walking past me and I could feel my face evaporating. I thought I was on fire as the acid ate at my skin.

There was an attempt on my life.

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

Even as a sitting MP from a party, I wasn't spared. Azam Khan harassed me. He attempted an acid attack on me.

So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.

In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!

We go through life, we need food, we need water and we need doctors. You have those three things, you're ahead of the game.

It's a travesty that there are people on this planet living on less than a dollar a day.

I saw domestic violence my whole life.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.