Quotes About Survival

Grinding her teeth together, she hoped the bastards weren't cheering yet, because it was going to take more than one bullet to kill Jenny Jones.

the rage she'd stored up back then would be all she'd need to keep her going now. Just long enough to unleash it on a worthless, abusive pig.

Those who survive are those who do not defy the gravity of others. And those who desire even a moment of freedom, find themselves hurled into space, doomed to crash with some unknown force. I no longer desire that freedom. I move, just move. Without meaning.

Grandfather! I am the last of the living in this desert.

Tener hambre y no poder comer es morir un poco cada minuto, cada segundo.

I'm so angry,' she said. 'I was all right until you came back. I'd given up. So many terrible things. Relatives, neighbors disappearing. Opa. The bloody Germans coming to...to strip us bare. Oma's silence. Bam, bam, bam. Like being punched over and over again. You get numb. It doesn't hurt anymore. Unless you start to hope. That's the trick, you see: you can take anything unless you start to hope.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?

What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, of a boa-constrictor? But apparently this improbable tiger had no intention of dying just yet. On the contrary, he intended taking a little walk, taking the boa-constrictor with him, even to pretend, for a while, it wasn't there.

It's amazing when you come to think of it how the human spirit seems to blossom in the shadow of the abattoir!

The fact that as the population of any species grows, the pressure on its natural resources increases and competition becomes more severe.

For billions of years, evolution has been driven by competition caused by the simple fact that, left unchecked, all living things can reproduce faster than their environment can sustain

Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.

If you'd slapped me or punched me or even stabbed me, sooner or later it would have stopped hurting.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is in my mind that a people faced with death or slavery as their only choices are not readily going to relinquish war. - Longinus Sdapeze

Even the rats carry bike chains as essential defence accessories.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains. I like to fly, not to kill.

A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.

Eine christliche Gemeinschaft lebt aus der Fürbitte der Glieder füreinander, oder sie geht zugrunde.

Fleeing is part of the struggle.

O BICHO VI ONTEM um bicho Na imundície do pátio Catando comida entre os detritos. Quando achava alguma coisa, Não examinava nem cheirava: Engolia com voracidade. O bicho não era um cão, Não era um gato, Não era um rato. O bicho, meu Deus, era um homem.

Trump did extremely well with voters that some analysts have called 'white trash', the pejorative epithet frequently used to describe poor white people throughout history. It was a cry for survival based on the only thing they had a handle on: being white

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.