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Quotes About Survival

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.
~ Ovid
Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
~ Rachel Cusk
We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
~ David Mamet
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.
~ Rob Payne
How many would die did not hope sustain them.
~ Owen Feltham
China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.
~ Ai Weiwei
The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
~ Joseph Addison
By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.
~ Danielle Steel
Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify.
~ James Patterson
I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
~ Twyla Tharp
Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.
~ Lauren Oliver
Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.
~ Lauren Oliver
Now to find Tristan, if he survived the excitement. I hope he did. I have some things to say to him, and none of them are 'Goddess bless'. -Numair Salmalin
~ Tamora Pierce
I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon—the potential of bacon—gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.
~ Rick Yancey, The Last Star
Breathe in, breathe out. Over and over again.Just to prove a broken heart can't really kill you.
~ Kelley York, Suicide Watch
Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.
~ David Byrne, How Music Works
We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earth's final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance.
~ Rick Yancey
..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.
~ Shannon Hale, Forest Born
To all the living there is hope for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
~ Bible
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
~ Dora Russell
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
~ Stanislav Grof
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
~ Paul R. Ehrlich