Quotes About Survival

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are not the only creatures that chew off their legs to get out of traps—human beings do that, too.

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Nothing is more frightening than a monster that cares about his health, cause you know he'll be around for a while.

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight.

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.

God, if You don't help me, I'm going to die.

Tears do not signal your weakness. Tears testify that you are alive.

MADDIE: If I can find my own, I can survive on my own. I won't be dependent on anyone.

Link had to make the decision to save himself.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.