Quotes About Survival

But mice and rats and such small deerHave been Tom's food for seven long year.

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.

Third Fisherman:… Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.First Fisherman: Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

What though the mast be now blown overboard,The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?Yet lives our pilot still.

You take my house when you do take the propThat doth sustain my house; you take my lifeWhen you do take the means whereby I live.

She that herself will sliver and disbranchFrom her material sap, perforce must witherAnd come to deadly use.

I bear a charmed life.

And the main fight will be over water, not oil.

But most people are too busy working on survival to find the opportunity to create.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne.

We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.

University of Life. Year One - Advance Adventure Playgrounds. Part One Exam - go to the Third World and survive. No revision, interest, intellect or sensitivity required.

How can you sleep through this? How can you even think of sleeping? And yet, sleep deprivation will drive you mad in the end: the flares in the sky, the symphony of explosions, the roar of mortars, the whir of drones...all this chaos will beat you, if you let it. ~Atef Abu The Drone Eats with Me: Diaries from a City Under Fire (2015)

If you drop one of us naked and alone into the wilderness, you've just fed the creatures of the local forest. But if you drop one hundred of us naked into the wilderness, you've introduced a new top predator to this unfortunate stretch of woods.

Another near miss by a sizzling bolt put Preacher in motion. "Let's quit playin' target for that stuff.

man would when he heard the whisper of a bullet

We had the best food any battlefield ever had.

For the German fighter pilot, there was no magic number of sorties or hours, the completion of which guaranteed a return home. He was already home, and in the skies over the Reich he faced an opponent who enjoyed overwhelming superiority. If he survived the first missions and his skills reached those of his opponents, he would fly until fatigue and strain led to a mistake that was more often than not fatal.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, have contributed to our strength. We've gotten through. We're still here.

After that, they simply beat me in a blind rage, but I was no longer interrogated. Had they kept it up, I might have said things that I didn't want to tell. None of us gave anyone away. I don't know whether you should pride yourself on that or not.

In the same way, we tried to be counted as political prisoners so that we wouldn't be put into a Jewish work camp. We knew that the Jewish work camp meant the end. The absolute end. We knew that. Although it was scanty, there was information about those camps. Then while we were being transported, we only hoped that we weren't going to Auschwitz, Treblinka, or Majdanek—camps that were already notorious.