Quotes About Survival

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Exactly why having more cognitive complexity makes a species live longer isn't totally decided by science yet. But the simplest answer is probably the best answer: The species is using its intelligence to survive. Smart animals figure things out. They solve problems and learn to avoid predators.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

Was all the hardship there to demonstrate how unlucky I was, or was I actually a very lucky person given that I'd survived so much?

I knew I had to live because, well, I didn't have the imagination to think otherwise.

I won't lie down and die gracefully. I'm far too cowardly for that.

Tidak, yang mati tidak harus bisu. Energi mereka tetap hidup melalui berbagai cara, jalan dan sarana, terutama melalui kenangan dan mulut para nyawa yang lolos dari saringannya di Buru ini. Pada suatu kali mungkin ada yang mampu mencatatnya tanpa tangannya gemetar dan tanpa membasahi kertasnya.

Selama orang masih suka bekerja, dia masih suka hidup dan selama orang tidak suka bekerja sebenarnya ia sedang berjabatan tangan dengan maut.

Rupanya di bumi jajahan ini setiap orang hidup atas dasar hancur menghancurkan.

Alam dan manusia telah membikinnya tidak brdaya dalam umur yang baru setengah abad. Sejak meninggalkan kampung halaman dan keluarga ia hanya mengenal penderitaan, tindasan, dan aniaya. Kami hanya dapat menangis dalam hati. Dan itupun tidak berguna. Orang-orang Jepang yang telah menindasnya sampai ia jadi begitu sekarang mungkin hidup senang di tengah keluargaya. Ya, sejak 1950, mungkin sudah sejak 1945.

Kala itu kemiskinan selalu melayang-layang di angkasa dan menyambari kepalaku.

The basic fact is that for the person without civil rights, death is always present in the background, forever dancing, each second of the day, before his eyes.

Pelacur makhluk lemah tanpa pelindung.

Tak bakal mampu orang Indonesia punya babu dalam keadaan begitu sulit beras.

Mengapa membuka ladang sejauh ini? Kalau deka(t) kampon(g) habis dimakan(g) babi sendiri. Di sini babi hutan(g) yang ditunggu. Orang kampon(g) bikin ladan(g) sambil cari daging.

Bangun dari bumi penjajahan: hancur menghancurkan! Sedang mereka yang tidak dihancurkan, mereka yang tidak menghancurkan adalah landasan hidup binatang ini.

Animals are not supposed to have the power to reason and therefore don't care whether there is life after death. But imagine animals trying to cheer themselves up in the same way that our own ancestors did when faced with death, by believing that there is life after death. How would they resolve the problem that in the afterlife they might once more be eaten by man?

Banyak orang jahat di gunung. Orang jahat bisa tikam kita, malam atau siang - Noro, Salah Satu Pemuda Alfuru, Wai Loa

Sungguh mengguncangkan mengetahui adanya sejumlah orang yang sejak perawan remaja sampai jadi nenek tetap terbelenggu oleh perbuatan keji balatentara Jepang. Di masa kemajuan tekhnologi semaju sekarang ini.

Kalau sampeyan nanti pulang, tolong ajak saya, bawa saya ini. Saya akan sangat berterimakasih kalau sampean bisa bawa saya keluar dari daerah ini. Saya sudah cukup lama disiksa oleh keadaan, sementara saya tidak tahu jalan keluar - Sulastri Dari Sompok Semarang Yang Dibuang Jepang di Pulau Buru

Pain is that teacher who teaches you to be strong; to be that kind of a person who can face the toughest challenges in the hardest situations. Suffering Is that treasure which makes you vigorous and helps you to survive in the most darkest of the time. Hardship is that endeavour which will never go in vein. It is that effort which shall help you to grow and to reach to your ultimate goal. And Failure is that chance which gives you the opportunity to rediscover and improve yourself.

For us climate change is not an event in the future. It's an event that we're dealing with now…our entire survival is at stake

Up to the moment of this writing… the Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place or time has one seen a phenomenon so unexpected and so complex: never have so many human lives been extinguished in so short a time, and with so lucid a combination of technological ingenuity, fanaticism, and cruelty.