Quotes About Survival

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Prison is like high school with knives.

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

In the event of a cabin failure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling, and untangling them will annoy you before you die.

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

Even snakes are afraid of snakes.

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort.