Quotes About Survival

Mud covered me from face to feet. I couldn't straighten my body, however much I tried to. But I was alive. I was alive and I could do seventy push-ups in the mud with a freaking bazooka tied to my back.

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

Podréis quitarme las monedas que llevo encima, podréis quitarme el reloj de mi muñeca y las llaves que llevo en el bolsillo, podéis quitarme hasta la vida; sólo hay una cosa que no podréis quitarme, por mucho empeño que pongáis: el miedo que tengo.

if i win and you die, i dont have a home to go back to. you are my life.

We singe but never burn.

I was in the ecstasy of babies then. I was on a long, oxytocin high. Noone told me about this. Noone told me I would feel like a wild animal ready to kill or be killed at a moment's notice with no hesitation at all right now for my baby. I would sit on the bed at night nursing Lally and I would imagine a lion jumping through the window. I would plan how to kill him. I knew the lion would be immediately dead. I knew that no matter what, my baby would survive.

Seanabhean is ea mise anois go bhfuil cos léi insan uaigh is an chos eile ar a bruach. Is mó bogradh is cruatan curtha agam díom ón gcéad lá do saolaíodh me go dtí an lá atá inniu ann. Dá mbeadh 'fhios agam go mbeadh a leath, ná a thrian, i ndán dom ní bheadh mo chroí ná m'intinn chomh haerach ná chomh misníúil is do bhí i dtosach mo shaoil.

One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment.

She had a kind heart, though that is not of much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.

Her courage, after all, was only a determination to survive. The

She had once seen a heron flying across the estuary and trying, while it was on the wing, to swallow an eel which it had caught. The eel, in turn, was struggling to escape from the gullet of the heron and appeared a quarter, a half, or occasionally three-quarters of the way out. The indecision expressed by both creatures was pitiable. They had taken on too much.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

Some wounds are so great that the only way to survive is to lock them up in a little box and put them somewhere deep inside,

Det gives alltid något bättre än döden

But what I found out that summer . . . was that I could swallow whatever hit me and let it sink as if nothing had happened. So I mimicked a game that meant nothing to me now, I was going through the motions, and then it looked as if what I was doing had a purpose, but it did not.

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

The wilderness creates unusual pressures and challenges.

And another adventure draws to a close with the classic happy ending. Happy except for the fact that Berk is dead, Aylee is gone, and Gwynn is a soulless vegetable. At least the bad guy got away! Ok, so the ending wasn't so happy, but hey, you can be happy to know nothing else can go wrong!

How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on.

I know that the World is a terrible place, filled with wild animals and evil men and wicked woman.

Those who are repetitively traumatized in childhood often learn to survive by over-using one or two of the 4F Reponses. Fixation in any one 4F response not only limits our ability to access all the others, but also severely impairs our ability to relax into an undefended state. Additionally, it strands us in a narrow, impoverished experience of life.

Traumatized children often over-gravitate to one of these response patterns to survive, and as time passes these four modes become elaborated into entrenched defensive structures that are similar to narcissistic [fight], obsessive/compulsive [flight], dissociative [freeze] or codependent [fawn] defenses.

The price of admission to a relationship with an extreme narcissist is self-annihilation. One of my clients quipped: "Narcissists don't have relationships; they take prisoners.

Many abandoned children enter adulthood feeling that the world is a dangerous place where they are ill-equipped to defend themselves