Quotes About Survival

Every bone in my body was crying out for rest, but I knew if I stopped, and perhaps slept, I would die. I had to keep going. It was strange, but the thirst which was killing me was also the driving force keeping me on this long, desperate march.

It's unbelievable what you can do when the threat to your own life is that bad.

No matter how many we ran to ground, there were always more.

I had eight magazines of 5.56mm bullets and ChemLights. As team lead, I carried flares, an extra radio, and an extra antenna stuffed in a cargo pocket. I had a computer and a medical pack containing QuikClot, bandages, needles, and tourniquets. I had water and food, too. I weighed about 250 pounds without my gear, and more than 325 with it. With every step I took, I could feel my spine compressing like a shock absorber.

La Posta, eighty miles east of San Diego. That's where they taught us stealth, camouflage, and patrolling, the essential field craft of the commando.

years in a U.S. civilian jail

The rats that had once fouled their food became their food. But soon the rats were gone.

bullet missing your head by an inch, you never forget

We are never more clever than in the creation of ways to destroy ourselves.

That is how the dead survive: they live in our memories, and some of the times that is a good thing and beautiful, and other times it is not good, and then the dead are like a virus in the blood, an infection of the mind. Then,

That is how the dead survive: they live in our memories, and some of the times that is a good thing and beautiful, and other times it is not good, and then the dead are like a virus in the blood, an infection of the mind.

Nature abhors annihilation.

A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there's less of you.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

We are all—even young lovers—affected by our own struggle for survival and by our world's assumptions regarding what is correct and successful. Not one of us, not even a heroine, escapes the constraint.

Possibly the symbol for America is the Frontier† The corresponding symbol for England is the Island† The central symbol for Canada†is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

When you hear me singing you get the rifle down and the flashlight, aiming for my brain, but you always miss and when you set out the poison I piss on it to warn the others.

We were like two wolves that have chased a prey and lost it: They lie together in the dark woods, panting and weary, and they're still hungry.

Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love...

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

Yet table manners have a great deal to recommend them as a subject for analysis. To begin with, since they are each culture's own way to encourage and manage the sharing of food, they are essential for the foundation and survival of every human society without exception. Once we recognize this fact, we may agree that explaining eating rituals is a serious and desirable enterprise.

No matter how invisible I feel, I will always be wrapped in the memory of life as a captive. —Quebrado

boat had swept away most of their catch. Once

Margot Benary-Isbert