Quotes About Survival

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; He has devoured the infant child. The infant child is not aware It has been eaten by a bear." "Infant Innocence

Almost is such a wonderful word don't you think?" the shopkeeper said with a wink. "So full of wiggle-room and loopholes, so not-absolutely-anything. Almost killed means still very much alive, which I am sure you will agree makes all the difference.

the antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.

Un hombre que se deslizaba desesperadamente cuesta abajo, incapaz de pagarse la ropa, la luz ó los alimentos; viviendo igual que una rata en el fondo de una embarcación abandonada, escurriéndose furtivamente por calles laterales, sufriendo a causa del talento frustrado y las oportunidades desperdiciadas.

Travelling in one direction. Yearning to be going the other way. She has lived here. She will survive there.

I read and reread these pages all day long as I sat next to the cast-iron stove. In the absence of coal, we burned wooden boards pilfered from the rubble of destroyed houses in order to keep warm in these chilly early days of spring. In times of plenty my appetite had always been small, but now I often went hungry.

Ma mère sait se sortir du pétrin. Ma mère fait ce qu'il y a à faire. Elle est une preuve que la vie fonctionne, même après une catastrophe.

I don't think. I can't allow myself the luxury. I've lived with fear since I was a child.

Existence is strife." "To strive is to live.

We're all in crashing plane, and everybody is fighting over who gets to sit in first class.

To be continued is a terrible thing, I know. But life is to be continued. You want to be continued as long as possible.

I like stubborn, wily survivors, and wish I could be one myself. So the next day I walked to his office, to extend my appreciation of his doggedness and to wish him a joyful time of it.

Bir yaÅŸa gelmeden hayat?n ne kadar uzun olduÄŸunu anlam?yorsun. Her ÅŸeyinin bittiÄŸiniz san?yorsun ama bitmiyor, uzun süre bitmiyor. bedeninin hayatta kalmak için ne kadar az güce ihtiyac? olduÄŸunu anlam?yorsun, vücudun sana inat ölmeyi reddediyor.

Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

I must admit that you fascinate me, Superior. Your life would seem to be entirely unbearable. And yet you fight so very, very hard to stay alive. With every weapon and stratagem. You simply refuse to die." "I am ready to die." Glokta returned his gaze, like for like. "But I refuse to lose." ~Bayaz and Glokta

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

In America, my initial impression was that death or the possibility of it always seemed to come as a surprise, as if we took it for granted that we were immortal, and that death was just an option.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

it was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory." p 380

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death, lest for forget, is the common lot.

Find your backbone, or be swallowed whole.