Quotes About Survival

The thing is, though, every time I think I'm just gonna give up—that I can't possibly do it, that I'm just going to curl up alone somewhere and waste away, well, I always keep trying. I mean, for some reason I manage to make it through another day and then another day after that.

Hey, man, helping you is how I stay alive. Never forget that.

I shudder when I imagine getting old. Up until a few months ago, I didn't even have hope of surviving past my twenties. Now that I want to live again, all this sickness and decay makes me feel humble and even slightly humiliated. How could I have so willingly thrown my life away when all these people are fighting desperately, every day, to save theirs?

Asking for money is a proclamation of your own unfitness for survival. It's saying, 'I am the weak one of the herd.

It made me realize how unimaginative I had always been about battered wives. Disaster creeps up, a tidal wave on the tourist beach. By the time you can see it, you are powerless or unable to resist it and it rolls you up and away.

If you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be. You have to go through the motions of surviving in order to survive.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

There are 2-3 millions prostitutes in India, and although many of them now sell sex to some degree willingly, and are paid, a significant share of them entered the sex industry unwillingly.

The child mortality revolution has used vaccines, treatments for diarrhea, micronutrients, and improved nutrition to reduce the number of child deaths worldwide each year from 20 million in 1960 to 6.6 million today—even as the number of children has risen.

We asked about the utilities, and Christine said proudly that the electricity was working, even though she hasn't paid the bills.

Just as they had followed the buffalo across the plains, wolves now followed it, in a few short years, to the brink of extinction.

How can you even think of food after what you have just witnessed?' 'It is because of what I have witnessed that I find it crossing my mind. Food is one of the principal means by which death is avoided.' - from Nicholas Meyer's "West End Horror" (dialogue tags removed for ease of reading)

The absence of archaea is puzzling given their evident fondness for the worst imaginable conditions on earth and ability to power ecosystems on the slimmest of organic rations. The

To want your child to remain innocent whilst toughening up enough to survive This Life is entirely contradictory, but, as far as I can tell, an almost-universal parental desire. It

Men have a fight-or-flight response, they say. For women, it's fight or flight, or freeze. Because in the face of overpowering physical strength, our overriding instinct is to survive, to not die here. I went numb, suspending my consciousness. It was a technique I had perfected as a child during beatings.

It hadn't lasted, of course, but that was no small mercy, because who could survive with such intensity of emotion?

There are no friends, there is no safety net, all the money is used up. The days creep by like beetles, slow and beyond morality. There is no escape. Shame and nightmares. The horror of other people, having to function among them when you are broken and unfixable. There is no escape.

So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.

If there was a thorn for every time that ah have died today,' ah thought, 'a thorn for every time that they have killed me, the world would be one big briar patch.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

The lesson of history is that, in the long run, super-elites have two ways to survive: by suppressing dissent or by sharing their wealth.

It was sort of my own personal apocalypse.

The question of how one survived is simply not asked. It is not polite. How one survived is best not discussed.