Quotes About Survival

His only realistic hope of survival was to order his own artillery to fire on his positions to stall the German attack. Some of his own men might be killed, but "pulling the chain," as it was called, was his only option.

A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't.

To survive, much less succeed, I learned I could not give myself over to either pleasure or misery in excess. Whatever you felt was not important. To

The animal will be tender with you, and you with it, but the animal never forgets that when what it wants for survival requires your death, it will become unafraid to kill you. And so you cannot forget this, either. It is, on reflection, good training to be a courtesan. A woman of any kind.

I think you can never know what you can live without. I think you can never know what you will live through. Only when the disaster arrives and you are there does the depth of your real inner resources reveal itself, and not a moment before

In some way I had never known how to express, I'd feared I would have to become the first of my kind, whatever my kind was, should I be allowed to survive—that which history has never seen before.

It's nothin' to me, he said. We're none of us made right for this world. But we're still here, aren't we? And

Somehow, by some accident, he had been lost on a planet that was not his own.

Phantasy provides a kind of temporary glue, which keeps people from falling apart through the production of illusions which enable them somehow to live with themselves.

Lo importante es sobrevivir y una persona tolerará el dolor y renunciará al placer para mantenerse viva.

I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.

This is not a full circle. It's Life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we all make to get on with it.

I think I've been broken for a long time. I've lived with this hole in my chest for so long I got used to it.

We need a sense of the unity of life and of humans for the sake of human welfare and for the survival of the planet. We need a sense of unity with the cosmos so that we can connect with Reality. But we also need a sense of individuality, for the sake of our own dignity and independence and of the loving care for others. We need it to appreciate each natural form, each animal and plant, each human person in their uniqueness.

Si aujourd'hui comme hier, la condition humaine, parce que trop éthérée, ne suffit pas à garantir le droit de survivre, peut-être la condition exilique, qui quoique mobile garde pour ainsi dire les pieds sur terre, le permettra-t-elle. Encore faut-il en admettre l'existence. (p. 17)

It was very difficult, impossible really, to survive if you never existed.

Of the Gymnasium class of 1939, half had died. Not one was yet 18.

He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.

Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

Social media companies are a gold rush today, and time will tell if they survive. I have no use for them and can't see why people waste time on them. I much prefer physical meeting with true friends, so have never used the service.

I actually watch 'The Walking Dead.' I like 'The Walking Dead' a lot.

If we lived in a time where people couldn't watch 'Lost' on Hulu or record it on their DVR, we wouldn't necessarily have succeeded. We need people to be able to catch up. Now you choose when you watch TV. We wouldn't have survived in the old days because people would have missed episodes.

As a boy I stood at the doorway of our hiding place in Budapest and watched Russian troops fight house by house to liberate the city and therefore rescue us from certain death.

I've known what it's like to survive without a steady job. Growing up in the Philippines, I watched my parents juggle part-time jobs at the corner shop and as tailors, barely able to make ends meet for my three brothers and me.