Quotes About Survival

Lost…What if all of the folklore elements your grandfather spoke of—actually were?What if there was only a paper thin separation of less than one degree?Who would save you? How would you survive?

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive.

I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe.

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.

Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on