Quotes About Survival

Fear saved lives. But fear could also kill.

When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

I have to go to the toilet," I tell Ma urgently after dinner. "You have to go in the woods." "But where?" "Anywhere you can find. Wait, I'll get you some toilet paper." Ma goes away and comes back with a bunch of paper sheets in her hand. My eyes widen in disbelief, "Ma! It's money. I can't use money!" "Use it, it is of no use to us anymore.

On previous trips the pirates have stolen valuables, killed people, raped and abducted girls...the women work frantically to ugly themselves up by smearing black charcoal paste on their faces and bodies. With ashen faces, some of the younger, prettier girls reach into the bags we have vomited into and scoop out handfuls of it to smear on their hair and clothes.

As Pa speaks, I know he thinks someone in our family has stolen the rice. The story of the rat is not true and everyone knows it. Convinced that he realises it was me, I hide my eyes from him. Shame burns my hand like a hot iron branding me for all to see; Pa's favourite child stole from the family. As if to rescue me,Geak wakes up and her screams of hunger interrupt the incident.

The Khmer Rogue soldier] screams a loud, shrill cry, that piercing my heart like a stake, and I imagine that this, maybe, is how Pa died. The soldier's head hangs, bobbing up and down like a chicken's... The woman raises her hammer again. I almost feel pity for him. But it is too late to let him go, it is too late to go back. It is too late for my parents and my country.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives Of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Water is what people need to survive," he said. "It quenches the deepest thirst, and you don't have to be rich to drink it. There's nothing better than cold water….

El animal primero se queda quieto y luego huye.

I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . .

According to recent estimates, life on Earth will last for another billion years, until it will be destroyed by the increase in solar temperature.

Tough people don't die easily. You'll be surprised how much it takes to kill a strong human being.

I had survived that; I would survive this; survival did not mean enjoyment.

come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

and we hang onto our no place happy to be alive and in the inner city or like we call it home

There is no place in nature for extinction.

And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength.

We know that many conditions must be satisfied If a species is to last and reproduce itself: First there must be food for it, and then a channel Through which the genetic particles in the limbs Can find a way out; and the female must fit the male; There must be organs which can give mutual pleasure.

Abby saved Mommy's life in that duck pond, the fact that if she hadn't gotten Mommy out of the pond, or if their mom hadn't massaged Mommy's arm every day for six months when she was a baby, Mommy might not have survived and gotten married and I might never have been born.

Throwing yourselves into recovery doesn't mean hiding from grief, pain, misery, aching. It just means you go with the present experience—when these emotions come, you open up to them and let them in—but you choose to get up in the morning and get out in the knowledge that, if you want to win this fight for survival, you've got to step up and take control.

The soul can't breathe without hope. Torture is to keep living after your soul has died.