Quotes About Survival

Anonymity amongst the wreckage of the earth. This is what I sought. And a good pair of boots for when it got cold.

That month the southern white rhino and a species of pangolin had gone extinct. Wildfires in five countries meant animals were crawling to the side of roads to beg people speeding by in cars for water. People were poisoning vultures and shooting bats out of the sky, scared of pandemics. To care more meant putting a bullet in your brain. So, like many, I had learned to care less. Silvina called it "the fatal adaptation.

fighting the same savage battles with the giant rabbits for each other's carrion

Apparently we'd been richer than we thought, to suffer such continual diminishment and still be alive.

Desolation tries to colonize you.

Nature practices deceptions in every angle. Evolution will create a being for any niche that can be found, no matter how unlikely. When

A name was a dangerous luxury here.

But when you can't escape the seconds, when you are sure you are going to die before you can get free, some things don't mean very much anymore.

would destroy the planet or save it? In its recognition of her, Ghost Bird knew that something would survive, that she would survive.

I lay there, panting, as the skin of Borne around me, the flesh of Borne, went prickly and rigid again and the cilia that rubbed up against me turned into tiny mouths that screamed into my clothes, arms and legs and hair. Borne was screaming silently into his own body because he could not scream on the outside.

But by then, whenever this was, the Strange Bird did not want to live, or did not know she could live, and that was the same thing in the end.

Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable.

It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.

By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis' "Final Solution," the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a popular uprising put down at gunpoint.

Many people who have the Dependence lifetrap also have the Abandonment lifetrap. In fact, it is difficult to imagine a person having the Dependence lifetrap and not having the Abandonment lifetrap. People who have the Dependence lifetrap believe that they cannot survive alone. They need a strong figure to guide and direct them through the activities of day-to-day life. They need help. Abby is an example of a person who has both lifetraps.

Remember that your Subjugation lifetrap has the strength of a lifetime of memories and of a multitude of repetitions and confirmations that it is right. Subjugation feels right to you. Your lifetrap is central to your entire self-image and view of the world. Naturally, it is going to fight very hard for survival. You find comfort and reassurance in holding onto your lifetrap, regardless of its negative consequences for your life. You should not become discouraged because change is slow.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

Life depends on the water cycle, so what's endangered here is life itself. And we're not talking about something that can't be avoided because no unavoidable pollution exists. It's all caused by man. Pollution can be prevented. It only takes the will and the means to fight it.

At Honda, it's sink or swim. They don't teach you step-by-step; they just throw you into the pool and let you figure it out on your own. If you don't know how to swim at first, you need to be aggressive to survive. We are to try out whatever we think is necessary to take ourselves to the next level.

Still, for someone who lied as much as Trump did, he was a remarkably transparent figure. He never really pretended to be anything other than what he was—a narcissistic scoundrel. Yet he survived.

Man is still a predatory animal, and we're only kidding ourselves if we think we're the pinnacle of evolution and civilization.

You are 2 Corinthians 4, because although this darkness pressed you so hard, it did not crush you. Perhaps it struck you down, but look at you: You are not destroyed. You see that in the light. You are still standing. If you are still breathing, there is still hope.

Tap into what brings you great joy instead of what you think you need to do to survive.

We are warriors," Devrin replied. "Our people are strong, accustomed to hardship, and will weather any storm. We may bend, but we do not break. We laugh into the gale and challenge it to do its worst. I believe with every fiber of my being that Llycaelon will survive even if the whole rest of the world falls.