Quotes About Survival

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

From what I've read the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.

L'avevo sentito morire e non ero morta. Avevo sentito il suo dolore come se fosse un essere umano, la sua vita divampare e spegnersi, eppure ero ancora viva.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers. EARTHSEED:

Act as a kind of gang? No. Not quite a gang. We aren't gang types. I don't want gang types with their need to dominate, rob and terrorize. And yet we might have to dominate. We might have to rob to survive, and even terrorize to scare off or kill enemies. We'll have to be very careful how we allow our needs to shape us. But we must have arable land, a dependable water supply, and enough freedom from attack to let us establish ourselves and grow.

Attention : A la guerre Comme en temps de paix, L'égoïsme aveugle Fait plus de victimes Que tous les autres fléaux Semence de la Terre : le Livre des Vivants

The penalty for being too poor to be worth robbing is a beating, a rape, and/or death.

Quando si tratta di estranei armati, penso che il sospetto ti aiuti a restare vivo più della fiducia.

If I was to live, if others were to live, he must live. I didn't dare test the paradox.

It was no news to me that other people's fathers could be monsters.

When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.

When apparent stability disintegrates, As it must— God is Change— People tend to give in To fear and depression, To need and greed. When no influence is strong enough To unify people They divide. They struggle, One against one, Group against group, For survival, position, power.

Well, we're barely a nation at all anymore, but I'm glad we're still in space. We have to be going some place other than down the toilet.

The ooloi have seen to it that you'll have a chance to live on your Earth—not just to die on it.

All people who know what it is to end should be allowed to continue if they can continue.

Were all slaves so thin—underfed, overworked, and taught that most things hurt?

In the 2020s, when these people were sick, starving, or trying to keep warm, they had no time or energy to look beyond their own desperate situations.

It isn't enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that's the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we'll be wiped out.

You're so young. It seems almost criminal that you should be so young in these terrible times.

Amid all this, somehow, the United States of America suffered a major nonmilitary defeat. It lost no important war, yet it did not survive the Pox. Perhaps it simply lost sight of what it once intended to be, then blundered aimlessly until it exhausted itself.

Humanity in its attempt to destroy itself had made the world unlivable.

When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.

I reappeared wet, muddy, and scared to death.

Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.