Quotes About Survival

You can't let pain go beyond a certain level or you start doing crazy things : you swallow some Destop Turbo and your internal organs, composed of the same substances that usually block sinks, break down amidst horrible pain: or else you throw yourself under a metro and find yourself two legs short with your balls crushed to bits, but still alive.

La seule chance de survie, lorsqu'on est sincèrement épris, consiste à dissimuler à la femme qu'on aime, à feindre en toute circonstance un léger détachement.

Que pouvions-nous faire, donc? Vivre? C'est exactement dans ce genre de situation qu'écrasés par le sentiment de leur propre insignifiance les gens se décident à faire des enfants; ainsi se reproduit l'espèce, de moins en moins il est vrai.

I'd feel kind of like a rat abandoning ship." "Rats are intelligent mammals," he answered calmly, almost with amusement. "They will probably outlive us. Their society, at any rate, is a good deal more stable than ours.

Animals live without feeling the least need of justification, as do the crushing majority of men. They live because they live, and then I suppose they die because they die, and for them that's all there is to it.

Dete je klopka koja se zatvorila, neprijatelj koga ?ete morati i nadalje da izdržavate i koji ?e vas nadživeti.

Estoy en el sistema liberal como un lobo en un descampado

En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado.

Cependant, l'animal le plus faible est en général en mesure d'éviter le combat par l'adoption d'une posture de soumission (accroupissement, présentation de l'anus).

Tengo la sensación de ser una rata que abandona el barco. –Las ratas son mamíferos inteligentes –respondió en un tono pausado, casi divertido–. Muy probablemente sobrevivirán al hombre; su sistema social, en todo caso, es mucho más sólido.

Ninguna cultura del espíritu, me recordó, había sido capaz de desarrollarse jamás en las sociedades con un alto índice de delincuencia, simplemente porque la seguridad física es la condición del pensamiento libre, y ninguna reflexión, ninguna poesía, ningún pensamiento mínimamente creativo ha logrado nacer nunca en un individuo que tenga que preocuparse de su supervivencia, que tenga que estar siempre en guardia.

Bantu Philosophy: People cling to life and are not yet at the stage where they wil fight for the quality of that life. They feel as long as they are surviving, that is enough.

Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not recover easily. For seventy-five years, from 1885 to 1960, Congo's population had marinated in humiliation. No malevolent witch-doctor could have devised a better preparation for the coming of a second Great Dictator.

You should have died

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. —MARIE ANTOINETTE

I would survive this. I'd survived worse things. After all, I was bamboo, and bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

Have you forgotten," she said in a furious whisper, "that he nearly killed us? That he threw my quiver in the stream, and threatened to snap my bow?" It was unclear which she considered worse: threatening them or her bow.

Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...

Michelle Paver

Zwart ijs... Witte beren, rood bloed. Ze zoeken het oog van de adder... In het oog gaan is in het donker gaan. Misschien kun je de weg naar buiten vinden, Wolfjongen. Maar wanneer je eenmaal binnen bent, zul je nooit meer heel zijn. Een deel van je blijft daar beneden. In het donker. - De Loper

When I first met you,' Pirra said levelly, 'we were stuck on an island with no food and no water. But we survived.' 'That was different.' 'I know, but if anyone can survive out here, it's you.

I was no longer the frightened obsessive who'd cowered in the storm and fought an illusory battle with a log. I was Jack Miller, the man who's keeping the 1937 Spitsbergen Expedition alive against all the odds.

Narrander is gestorven... Hij is omgekomen tijdens de grote brand.' 'Een ander is gestorven!' bulderde de Loper.