Quotes About Survival

We must, at once re-educate the next generation not to fall prey to this lowly level of thinking. Thus, making them strong enough to survive the next episode of life.

You can only understand the uselessness of money if you find yourself in a desert with a handful of a bag of money. You will starve to death.

You must become mentally or emotionally fit if you want to survive.

The problem with the force of tribalism is that, it survives only when you're with your relatives but subsides when you start counting your personal friends. It's a nonsensical, subjective fundamental force, thus why it exists nowhere in physics.

When the wild herds were destroyed, so too was the will of the Kiowa people; there was nothing to sustain them in spirit.

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Only those who have never known slavery wonder at what others will do to escape it.

People who have been starved of water for a long time will drink anything, even if it is polluted.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

The astonishing thing is not that so many of us went to concentration camps or died there, but that some of us survived. Caution did not help. Only chance could save you.

My work means that we have lived in different parts of the world and in each there has always been something to be afraid of. Gangsters, extremist political groups Right and Left tossing bombs into restaurants, hijacks, holdups, a city plumb on the line of an earthquake fault. We have long had a compact, with ourselves, with life; life is dangerous. We live with that; in the one certainty that fear is the real killer.

what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers' days are determined by the struggle against thirst and those of dwellers amid snow and ice by the struggle against the numbing of cold.

Do you have no sense of self-preservation?

Are you?" "What?" "Venomous?" Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. "Try me and see." "Maybe later, after I've survived Michaela.

To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also a kind of annihilation?

Raw pain scored his insides, but the bear was in agreement with the man: as long as Silver lived, he could take the pain, take the loss that would haunt him always. He had this big body for a reason. It could take a lot of punishment. As long as she breathed, he'd survive. He'd watch over her from afar, and he'd survive because his mate was alive.

My God, Seelichka. Even though they cut into your brain, even though they rewired you, you held on to him. No wonder Mishka calls you Silver Fucking Mercant.

Illium sonrió, desvengonzado. -¿Queréis intentarlo de nuevo? Me moveré más despacio (ambos sois mucho más viejos, después de todo) -Las últimas palabras fueron un susurro conspirador. Galen miró a Rafael. -¿Cómo ha sobrevivido todo este tiempo? -Nadie puede atraparlo.

But plants grow again," She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. "They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil.

If I could have, I would've taken you with me," Walker said. "That I couldn't do, but I could make sure you had the tools to survive." It didn't answer Aden's question, but he didn't push. Then Walker added, "You're not my son, Aden, but that's how I've always thought of you.

Damage meant nothing except that the person had lived life and taken a few knocks along the way.

If I lose him, I'll break." His mind touched hers. You can't break, Ivy. You're the only home my Arrows know—no matter what, that home must survive.

Being isolated and alone and hurt day after day changes a person, Aden. It turns a child into . . . into a thing that isn't quite human and not quite animal. Like any trapped creature, that child will gnaw off its own limb to escape—but if that child is a Gradient 9.8 combat-grade telepath named Zaira Neve, it'll first ask if it can gnaw off its attackers' limbs instead.

The scope of it might have driven another man mad; it was to Kaleb's advantage that he'd had his brush with madness as a child and survived. Whether or not he was sane was another question.