Quotes About Survival

I just came back from a community that holds the secret to human survival. It's a place where women run the show, have sex to say hello, and play rules the day.

Best would have been if I'd died, I guess, but there wasn't much chance of that, not right off anyway... Next best was to make me want to die, but I had enough spite in me to want to live, usually.

Crime, particularly among the poor and downtrodden, is often a last gesture of liberty.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

You know you are truly alive when you're living among lions.

When I was young, my father used to say, 'If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.' I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didn't know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive.

children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end...

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn't say anything. He continued: "Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.

If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.

Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even thought I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed upon my return, I knew that a memory of my existence was alive somewhere in the world.

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world.

seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

Y ella se abandona a la corriente de la lectura como al único acto de vida posible en un mundo donde no queda sino arena árida sobre capas de betún oleoso y peligro de muerte por razón de Estado y reparto de fuentes de energía...

Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

In the course of millions of years there was no form of living creature that hadn't had its opportunity to come forth, populate the Earth, and then—in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred—decline and vanish.

Amid all the extraordinary events you were witness to in your lifetime, the most extraordinary was that everything went on, not that everything was collapsing?

Let's be frank: every regime, even the most authoritarian, survives in a situation of unstable equilibrium, whereby it needs to justify constantly the existence of its repressive apparatus, therefore of something to repress.

strong actors have a lower interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is not at stake, whereas weak actors have a high interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is at stake.

strong actors have a lower interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is not at stake, whereas weak actors have a high interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is at stake. A strong actor's low interests imply high political vulnerability, and a weak actor's high interests imply low political vulnerability.

Scarcity is historical, as historical as gender or sex. The era of scarcity could come to be only on the assumption that 'man' is individual, possessive, and, in the matter of material survival, gender-less - a rapacious neutrum oeconomicum.