Quotes About Survival

I did survive. I still am. And it won't happen again.

I didn't drown. I didn't break.

I survived. Isn't that what matters?

Operation: Hansel & Gretel

Of course, no one likes the frailty that can come from old age, but guess what? The opposite of age is not youth: It's death. Age is not the approach towards death, it's the increasingly precious alternative to it. So, as I grow older, I want to look older, dammit. Otherwise where's the glory in survival?

When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.

We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167 love always found itself again.

Squanto engineered the survival of the Pilgrim Fathers and it was because of his help that an English-speaking society eventually prevailed there. Their own language had saved them.

English, like water, will find its own level. The language itself through usage and natural selection will see that what is survivable will survive.

Whilst a word like "impede" survived, its opposite, "expede," did not.

If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have... escaped.

and, the highlight, Cristiano Ronaldo weeping on the grass after a knee injury in the 24th minute, while a lone Autographa gamma sips his teardrops away.

Cities are the world's new vacant niches, and the blackbird is one species that has embarked on the road toward speciating to maximize its profits from this horn of plenty,

The closest relatives of bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) are parasites of cave bats—which indicates that that was also bed bugs' original niche.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

In the midst of death's relentless power, I yet among the living stand

Perhaps periods of anxiety, sadness, panic, and sheer craziness are just part of the mental continuum that nature has provided to help us stay alive, make babies, and pass on genes.

My life story is structured by reckless reenactments of panic and flight.

A diferença entre a Guerra e a Paz é a seguinte: na Guerra, os pobres são os primeiros a serem mortos; na Paz os pobres são os primeiros a morrer. Para nós, mulheres, há ainda uma outra diferença: na Guerra, passamos a ser violadas por quem não conhecemos.

A guerra cria um outro ciclo no tempo. Já não são os anos, as estações que marcam as nossas vidas. Já não são as colheitas, as fomes, as inundações. A guerra instala o ciclo do sangue. Passamos a dizer: "antes da guerra, depois da guerra". A guerra engole os mortos e devora os sobreviventes.

A guerra cria um outro ciclo no tempo. Já não são os anos, as estações que marcam as nossas vidas. Já não são as colheitas, as fomes, as inundações. A guerra instala o ciclo do sangue. Passamos a dizer: "antes da guerra, depois da guerra". A guerra engole os mortos e devora os sobreviventes.

The difference between war and peace is as follows: in war, the poor are the first to be killed; in peace, the poor are the first to die. For us women, there's another difference too: in war, we get raped by those we do not know.