Quotes About Survival

I start to wonder if there be any chance of schooling for any of them, for who will take to teaching a child that could kill her with one bite?

Living through a day was harder, for no matter how much I stomp one down another was always coming. Watching the little poison frog take on a day is how I learn to live through it. First rip the day in half, time to sleep, time to walk. Then tear it down more, then more, and more after that. Tear a day into pieces you can swallow and soon the whole thing will pass.

When dog kill puss, and puss kill dog, the only one happy is the john-crow. And the john-crow been waiting for this all it life. The vulture with him red head and white feather chest and black wings.

our genes' primary goal is not necessarily harmony between mates, but rather greater success for themselves.

Hopelessness clamps into the soul like the claws of a tiger into its prey.

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.

Valls permanecía aletargado dentro de su bola de excrementos, pajitas y tierra como la larva subterránea del escarabajo pelotero.

Tak jak powtarzaj?cy si? g?ód w Korei Pó?nocnej powinien by? klasycznym przyk?adem tego, do czego zdolna jest dyktatura, kiedy chodzi jej wy??cznie o utrzymanie si? przy w?adzy, tak g?ód w Nigrze w 2005 roku móg?by pokazywa?, do czego zdolny jest rynek, kiedy nic nie kr?puje jego dzia?a?.

Emily always turned to language to soothe or lessen her distress. The letters could have served as a reminder of the pain she had experienced, but survived. Whatever purpose she had in writing remained a secret known only to her. She never shied away from looking anguish in the eye or contemplating its aftermath. To do so was an act of dominion over misery and resistance to inertia.

Another day, my friend. We survive by focusing on the next thing in front of us and doing what we can, letting the rest go. Otherwise, you're fucked.

One man gave her water from his skin pouch, which carried with it a faint taste of animal

Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad.

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

It is amazing that the refugees stay sane. First the bombs, perhaps the "battle" around them, their casualties, their naked helplessness; then the flight, leaving behind everything they have worked for all their lives; then the semi-starvation and ugly hardship of the camps or the slums; and as a final cruelty, the killing diseases which only strike at them.

none had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a species of fish that was born, lived, spawned, died in the dark waters of a cave; and were blind.

The person who suffers from a severe trauma disorder must decide between surviving in a barely sublethal misery of numbness and frustration, and taking a chance that may well bring her a better life, but that feels like stupidly issuing an open invitation to the unspeakable horror that waits to consume her alive. And in the manner of the true hero, she must choose to take the risk. For

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. —ELIE WIESEL

I wasn't sure exactly what "okay" would involve, but I was willing to settle for "unmurdered.

By tricky I meant I was getting an average of an 85 percent chance of failure and death, and it was only that low because my last diagnostic said my risk assessment module was wonky. (I know, that explains a lot about me.)

The HubSystem that controlled their habitat, that they were dependent on for food, shelter, filtered air, and water, was trying to kill them. And in their corner all they had was Murderbot, who just wanted everyone to shut up and leave it alone so it could watch the entertainment feed all day.

Pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy.

Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.

The humans hadn't gotten a lot of sleep last night, from the crowding and the strong possibility of dying.

After spending my entire existence having to gently suggest to humans that they not do things that would probably get them killed, it was nice to be able to tell them in so many words to not be so fucking stupid. But I didn't regret doing it.)