Quotes About Survival

A soldier would snake his way painfully through rocks and rubble to set up a light machine gun, raise his head cautiously to aim, and find a dozen natives clustered solemnly around him. Street

He spent two decades wandering the wilderness, overmedicated, set upon by the tax man, divorce lawyers, everything but a rain of toads. There were more fights and pills and liquor and car crashes and women and discharge of firearms—accidental and on purpose—than a mortal man could be expected to survive, but he played.

I believe a cast-off dog does not easily forget the life it had before.

But I don't think any dog knows home better than one thrown anway once already.

If it had not been for clam chowder, I would have jumped from a bridge into the frozen River Charles.

One: Don't kill yourself. Two: Don't kill each other. Three: Try hard not to kill nobody else, but if you have to, better if it ain't fam'ly.

The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The season of pain is never over until the sky begins to cry.

Predators are color-blind. They only see victims and non-victims.

Predators only understand violence: either accept it or return the favor.

Every now and then you know it's kinda hard to tell... but I'm still alive and well!

In the Valley of the Wolves

The Rise of Black Wolf

He seemed as though he were habitually preparing himself for something awful, and this was justified because many awful things had happened to him.

I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box...

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

It's okay," he said. We're together." He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily. "Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

Remember, being healthy is basically dying as slowly as possible.

Science makes us understand how to stay alive longer - feelings give us the reason to want to

South Sudan and its people are at a precarious crossroads between being and not being.