Quotes About Survival

Prin?i în b?taia mitralierelor, c?deau ai no?tri ca spicele sub secer?toare. [...] Noi n-am avut arme. Ne-au trimis la r?zboi cu mâinile goale - pu?ti vechi, gloan?e pu?ine, dezbr?ca?i... Ca pe vite la t?iere...

Death is the ultimate storm. The survival of one's life experience, one's "house," is a pressing issue for all men, whether regenerate or not. The soul that must pass into eternity without Christ leaves behind a wreckage that is pitiful indeed. But so may a real Christian leave behind such wreckage. A life not lived on the firm foundation of divine truth invites disaster, no matter who lives it.

Like an arrow sprung from a bow Betty flashed past the Colonel and out on the green. Scarcely ten of the long hundred yards had been covered by her flying feet when a roar of angry shouts and yells warned Betty that the keen-eyed savages saw the bag of powder and now knew they had been deceived by a girl.

monday: empty storehouses a rat became the unit of currency

Life" is defined as the ability to absorb nutrients (of any kind) and to replicate, not just to exist.

No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

Nothing could have survived our life.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

Self-defence," I said slowly, looking him straight in the eye, "is all about getting out of dangerous situations without getting hurt.

Niektórzy s?dz?, ?e sowiety dlatego tylko s? piek?em, ?e tam ludzie mr? z g?odu, ?e tysi?ce gin? w wymy?lnych torturach. Otó? nie: sowiety s? piek?em tak?e i dlatego, ?e nie masz w?ród nich miejsca dla nadziei.

She has spoken and survived.

Déjà, il était trop tard. Ils ne savaient bien. L'ennemi avait clairement gagné. Bientôt il ne resterait plus du miracle de la vie sur notre planète que la monoculture des vaches, cochons, chiens et poules maltraités, quelques autres espèces utiles -ainsi que des humains, d'horribles, de répugnants, d'imbattables humains.

DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time.

We began our visit at the archives. When we entered, the architectural plans for the crematoria were already spread out on the table. Some of these meticulous plans had been drawn by inmates, who, Robert Jan pointed out, signed them with their prison numbers, no names. All I could think of at that moment was Primo Levi's observation about his time in Auschwitz, where a number was tattooed on his arm: "Only a man is worthy of a name."6

Leon Wells told of Operation 1005, the group of Jewish prisoners assigned to eradicate the evidence by opening mass graves and exhuming, burning, and pulverizing the bodies. -- The Eichmann Trial, page 87

On one occasion, when he was about to be taken from the interrogation room, he thought he was going to be shot. His knees buckled and he cried out in a pleading voice: "I have not told you everything yet". -- The Eichmann Trial, page 44

Of her six kids she'd buried all of her sons, the five young men having succumbed to the streets of Baltimore.

Women help one another survive much in this world

It was true that I had no idea how to endure being alive and everything that comes with it.

When our father does the things he needs to do in the world, we understand it is his due. If our mother does the things she needs to do in the world, we feel she had abandoned us. It is a miracle she survives our mixed messages, written in society's most poisoned ink. It is enough to drive her mad.

What is worse? To be chained all day with a bowl of water, or to be free and die of thirst?

When our father does the things he needs to do in the world, we understand it is his due. If our mother does the things she needs to do in the world, we feel she has abandoned us. It is a miracle she survives our mixed messages, written in society's most poisoned ink. It is enough to drive her mad.