Quotes About Survival

A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

What doesn't kill us makes a good story.

One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself..........

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.

I pulled myself back before wind could knock me down. I survived the wind and my own person.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

Most innovations fail. And companies that don't innovate die.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn't have even survived.