Quotes About Survival

<...> I've never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so.

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.

Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

Fingir es esencial para convivir, para prosperar y progresar

No podemos pretender ser los primeros, o los preferidos, sólo somos lo que está disponible, los restos, las sobras, los supervivientes, lo que va quedando, los saldos, y es con eso poco noble con lo que se erigen los más grandes amores y se fundan las mejores familias, de eso provenimos todos, producto de la casualidad y el conformismo, de los descartes y las timideces y los fracasos ajenos

Recuerda, todo lo que hace fuerte, duele. Algunos quedan

Cuando se le agotaba el fuego, ingería de nuevo la lava que había vomitado o devoraba las armas de los enemigos caídos y las fundía en el crisol que tenía por estómago.

There was a 194-car crash in Los Angeles. Luckily the guy in the first car was still able to complete his cell phone call.

Any day is a good day so long as you survive to play another day.

Because they are living creatures and that means they have to work to stay alive. Staying alive always has a dark side.

Torture has an indelible character. Whoever was tortured, stays tortured.

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

See that falcon? Hear those white-throated sparrows? Smell that skunk? Well, the falcon takes the sky, the white-throated sparrow takes the low bushes, the skunk takes the earth...I take the woods.

Charlie Wind once told me we must keep the animals on Earth, for they know everything: how to keep warm, predict the storms, live in darkness or blazing sun, how to navigate the skies, to organize societies, how to make chemicals and fireproof skins. The animals know the Earth as we do not.

Hunger is a funny thing. It has a kind of intelligence of it's own.

Better to suffer than to die: that is mankind's motto.

At least a third of all the people in the world died.

In her garret, Divine lived only on tea and grief.

After the drama, he had to live in the tragedy.

In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.