Quotes About Survival

There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.

I forgive you, " I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!!

Never underestimate the will of a creature who begins to die at birth.

Killing is easy, " said Mo, "Dying is harder...

Everyone thought that things were getting back to normal. They had no idea that normal didn't exist for me any more. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge.

Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.

I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.

Thank God, my name isn't in the list of thosewho died or werekilled yesterday!

That kind of imagination is why we're not dead.

The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers.

Where death follows, there's life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you'll eventually find the light.

I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived.

Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Fear is the short road to death and this world, Changed by the flux of decay: Survival is the exception for weary men.From the new book The Waning

In the end, the slow decay of the body didn't matter. We all continue on, renewing ourselves, through our offspring. They are what matter. They are what survives.

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?

When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.

The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living, she thinks, without remembering where she heard that.

She should have died on that day. Perhaps, in a way, she had.

You are tougher to kill than Steven Seagal...

...there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.