Quotes About Survival

I come from a completely dysfunctional alcoholic family, so we kind of parented ourselves a little bit.

The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of your eating.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

I know what it means to be a slave, both physically and emotionally.

I don't think the end of the world is the end of the world.

I was doing a lot of great theatre, but I just couldn't work out how to make ends meet.

Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don't even want to talk about. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Hope and love are two words the entire world survives on.

You, Me and The Apocalypse' is epic!

I did everything I can to be free and escaped.

I'm feeling much better than I have been for many years. You know, I... there have been a couple of days when I thought maybe I wasn't going to make it to the evening. I don't feel that anymore.

Our quality of life, and perhaps even our survival, depends on how we choose to manage ourselves in relation to the technologies we create.

Los esclavos, más que nadie, conocemos el arte de la hipocresía.

It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.

It was that stages-of-anger thing. I was shocked and then I got pissed and then I fought like hell … and then I went numb. They called it acceptance, but it wasn't. It's what happens when you have only two choices: live with the monster, or kill yourself.

Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don't because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn't look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

Those brain-zapped kids weren't the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they would. They'll bargain and compromise in order to survive; they'll chase after miracle cures and believe just about anything so long as it gives them hope. When hope fails, then watch out. Some people get brutal. They'll turn on each other; they'll become their own worst enemies.

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

Tell yourself you're dead, the way Matt does, so the past can't hurt you.

Staying alive just to stay alive isn't enough.

A chronic headache muttered in her temples, but like Barrett said, no one ever died from pain. True, but some days you didn't much enjoy living either.