Quotes About Survival

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.

I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.

Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

My choices were to either give in and let them kill all of us or fight back with everything I had. I chose the second one, 'cause I'm just funny that way.

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

They are again in the dirt in the desert.

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

It might be funny when you get hit by a car, but not when you get run over by one.

I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.

The sky already fell. Now what?

Because zombies can't go out into the sun, most of them tend to be afraid of anything that can go into the sun and live to tell the tale.

Cristin Harber, Black Dawn

If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny.

In life, more than in anything else, it isn't easy to end up alive.

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat.

You two were in a cave together?' said Miss Simpkins in horror.'Yes, ' said Kate, 'and it was very, very dark.

The shortest horror story:The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him."Um. Define okay." (Ben)"Okay means you're not bleeding to death.""I'm okay.