Quotes About Survival

The hardiest plant in the world is the purple saxifrage. It has delicate-looking flowers, with purple petals that seem as though they might blow away in the wind, yet it thrives in the Arctic. The flowers survive by clustering together, low to the ground, offering each other shelter against the hardest conditions on earth.

She had loved no one, and no one had loved her back. She had been empty, her life had been empty, walking around, faking some kind of human normality like a sentient mannequin of despair. Just the bare bones of getting through.

And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on. —Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

the thing that was depressing me was that humans weren't turtles. Turtles have been around for two hundred and twenty million years. Since the Triassic period. And they haven't really changed that much. Humans, in contrast, have been around only a short while. And you don't have to be a genius to switch on the news and conclude: we probably don't have long. The

Without emotions humans wouldn't care for each other, and if they didn't care for each other, the species would have died out. To care for others is self-preservation. You care for someone and they care for you.

But I am good with pain. Small price to pay for being alive.

When things are taken from us, the stuff that remains has more value. It rises not only in visibility but also intensity. What we lose in breadth we gain in depth.

I am just a caveman in a world that has arrived faster than our minde and bodies expected.

Struggling, flailing, just trying to survive while not knowing which way to go. Which path to commit to without regret.

No one is killed for witchcraft now.' 'Ignorance changes over time. But it is always there, and it remains just as lethal.

To Live Is to Suffer

be part of nature was to be part of the will to live.

The point of love was to help you survive.

I love you," she said. And I knew the point of love right then. The point of love was to help you survive.

Et surtout, les livres. Ils étaient, en eux même, une raison de rester en vie.

Car accident, drug overdose, drowning, a bout of fatal food poisoning, choking on an apple, choking on a cookie, choking on a vegan hot dog, choking on a non-vegan hot dog, every illness it was possible for you to catch or contract . . . You have died in every way you can, at any time you could.

And it was different because she was alive, when she had so nearly been dead. And because that had been her choice. A choice to live.

THEN ME: I need a reason to stay alive. I need something strong that will keep me here. NOW ME: Okay, okay, give me a minute . . .

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

Equidistante. Não alinhada a uma margem nem à outra. Era assim que ela havia se sentido na maior parte da vida. Presa bem no meio. Lutando, se debatendo, simplesmente tentando sobreviver sem saber para onde ir. Nem com que caminho se comprometer sem arrependimentos.

how can we live in a mad world without ourselves going mad?

How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?" The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.

But I have found over the years that by reading about other people who have suffered, survived, and overcome despair, I have felt comforted. It has given me hope.

The only thing we need is to exist.