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Quotes About Survival

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
~ Robert Jordan
Cauthon lives, Arganda said. And that's bloody amazing, considering that someone blew up his command post, set fire to his tenet, killed a bunch of his damane, and chased off his wife. Cauthon crawled out of it somehow. Ha! Abell Cauthon said. That's my boy.
~ Robert Jordan
A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.
~ Robert Jordan
hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.
~ Robert Jordan
Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?
~ Robert Jordan
If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
~ Robert Jordan
But hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.
~ Robert Jordan
You can't give up. You can't ever give up. If you give up you might as well be dead.
~ Robert Jordan
The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain, Matrim Cauthon whispered. Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.
~ Robert Jordan
Well, we'll survive, the Light willing. Some grinned and added, And if the Light doesn't will, we'll still survive.
~ Robert Jordan
Prudence is for those who intend to live long lives
~ Robert Jordan
But we are alive at this moment, and before us is the hope of remaining alive. Do not surrender before you are beaten, Ogier.
~ Robert Jordan
People frequently continued to go on as they had been after all purpose in it had been lost.
~ Robert Jordan
He expected the other man to be dead—not many could survive a thirty-foot fall to cobblestones with another's weight on top of him—but what he had not expected was to see the fellow's dagger driven to the hilt into his own heart. Such an ordinary-looking man to have tried to kill him. Mat did not think he would even have noticed him in a crowded room.
~ Robert Jordan
when a dangerous path was your only route to safety, you had to take it.
~ Robert Jordan
Lembre-se: A discrição mantém um homem vivo para gastar seu dinheiro.
~ Robert Jordan
What I do, I do because there is no other way. He is hunting me again, and this time one of us has to die, I think. There is no need for those around me to die, also. Too many have died for me already. I do not want to die either, and will not, if I can manage it. There are lies in dreams, and death, but dreams hold truth, too.
~ Robert Jordan
I want you to stop thinking you're going to make them do anything. They've decided what they are going to do, and you can't change it. But maybe—just maybe—you can help me keep them alive.
~ Robert Jordan
In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping;
~ Robert Jordan
Quer seja o urso a vencer o lobo ou o lobo a vencer o urso, quem fica a perder é sempre o coelho.
~ Robert Jordan
Espero que cheguem a esta fogueira a qualquer momento. Mas a esperança é como um pedaço de corda quando você está se afogando: simplesmente não é o suficiente para tirar você da água sozinho .
~ Robert Jordan
hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself." Egwene
~ Robert Jordan
clutching his blanket around him. Using every bit of skill he had gained stalking
~ Robert Jordan
Strangely, she still felt no fear. She thought if she survived this, she would never feel fear again.
~ Robert Jordan