Quotes About Survival

Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.

But as long as one is alive, one can be vital. But you don't give up until you stop breathing.

That's the way of the world. Sometimes you eat. Sometimes you get eaten.

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced.

Problema e dac? mai reu?e?ti sa ie?i din ceva, odat? ce te-ai n?scut.

C?r?bu?ii au o groaz? de picioare, dar când se r?stoarn? pe spate nu mai pot s?-?i revin?, sunt ca ?i pe lumea cealalt?. Poate ar trebui s? aib? o parte din picioare pe spate. S?-?i distribuie mai ra?ional picioarele.

Si je suis en pleine mer? Un jour, deux jours, un an, je nagerai sur le ventre. Quand je n'en pourrai plus, je me mettrai sur le dos. Ensuite, sur le côté. Puis sur un doigt, un fil de cheveu, un filet d' âme, un filet de souffle, un reste de soupir... Quoi qu'il advienne, je m'en sortirai. (extrait de "Jonas", p. 44)

I realized that this is the theme I return to constantly - I'm always trying to prove to everyone that I can go it alone, that I can survive, that I don't need anybody.

What happened in war? People died -- that's what happened.' He fixed me with that stubborn clenched-jaw look. 'Those who were bravest perished first. Those who believed in something died for belief. Those who survived...' He starts to cough. 'You know that more than twenty million Soviet citizens perished in this war.

We ran across the desert like our hair was on fire because in a few minutes, it might be. Along with the rest of our bodies.

Cavagnolo and I stepped from behind the trees and back to the clearing. Flies swarmed around us, perhaps hoping we'd also drop dead and add to the feast.

El sistema operativo de las estructuras límbicas es diferente al del hipotálamo. Para el sistema límbico lo más relevante es: — Descubrir y reconocer los peligros y las oportunidades. — Buscar el placer, la satisfacción y huir del dolor, del sufrimiento. — Generar lazos afectivos a través del contacto físico.

La intención subterránea, es seguir existiendo después del fin. Y a esos efectos tanto sirve la existencia de un hijo como la de una cicatriz. Después de todo, también el hijo es una cicatriz.

El tiempo pasa y yo sigo viviendo, con los dolores y las ausencias de siempre pero sigo viviendo.

Reconozco que ésa era la preocupación que tenía cuando estaba vivo: hasta dónde podría aguantar. Porque cuando uno está vivo, quiere seguir viviendo, y eso es siempre una tentación peligrosa. En cambio, la tentación se acaba cuando uno sabe que está muerto.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

Redheads are a variant that survived, a color minority, though not a skin color precisely, not a race, but still subject to identification by the wary eyes and wagging tongues of the majority.

Lo que me pase a mí no me importa. ¿O usted cree que después de la vida que llevé me va a asustar estar en una cárcel, con otras infelices como yo?" Juana fue condenada a nueve años de prisión.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

Kindness is the currency of humanity. Even in the camps one found it. Debased and broken, but one found it.

survivors.' The sea-spray had frozen in his and Todt's eyebrows and beards, white forests riming their faces.

Sometimes remembering means to live a moment in the past again, and in that way survive the present.

Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life.