Quotes About Survival

The safest thing to do was get rid of the second breast. I just want to give myself the best chance possible to live.

I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

I don't believe that man was built to be put in a 5-by-7 for 30 years and have his sanity when he comes out if he doesn't find something to escape.

There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.

I have an act I take on the road. That's what saved me. I dont know how most actors make a living.

Art saved my life.

English people have seen me get through scandals.

After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

People always think that domestic abuse is something that you live with and get over. But no. You have mental scars.

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

I could start a fire from scratch.

The sealing industry is dying.

One of my favorite books is 'Man's Search for Meaning.'

To me basketball is secondary. I had to really fight for my life. I almost died over this game.

I owe the NHS my life.

I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.

Our house was destroyed in 1943, and I moved the family to a cottage I owned before the war in the Bavarian Alps. This cottage was meant for a very few people, and at the end of the war, there were about 13 people in this very small house.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

I have been on the deathbed so many times and had to be given oxygen while training. I did not know if I would survive, but the roar of applause would lift me up.

Life comes with pain.

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.