Quotes About Survival

Is it better to outmonster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Winning meant saving lives. Winning meant we survived. Winning meant the monsters died. It was simple math and anyone who didn't understand that vampire hunting was just that simple wasn't going to be very good at the job.

Everything wants to live, Newman, even monsters.

I was wiping Tlaloci's brains off my face when Olaf came to stand in front of me. I never thought I'd say this, but damn I'm glad to see you. He actually smiled. I saved your life. That made me smile. I know.

I had never yet had to try to fast draw a knife from a thigh sheath. It was probably going to look vaguely obscene, but if it kept me alive . . . hey, I can take a little embarrassment.   B

Nothing like near death to get you to practice.

Edward ayr?m yapmayan bir katildi. Hiç ayr?m yapmazd?. Cinsiyet, din, ?rk ya da tür fark? gözetmezdi. EÄŸer tehlikeli bir ÅŸey varsa, Edward onu avlar ve öldürürdü. Bunun için ya??yordu, o, avc?lar?n avc?s?yd?.

Death smashes a crater into your life, and you're left alone to sort through the rubble.

In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them...Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain...a collective corona that still glows. - Douglas Hofstadter

We onlies, we fear the nothing. We fear the winds that howl around the last one standing. We fear the black silence of carrying those ever-fading histories alone.

Its nice to know that your common sense stands between me and the grave.

Many of the men went to sea simply to escape. Some were fleeing jail, hanging, or torture;

Michel and Annette Muller's mother, snatched from her children at Beaune-la-Rolande, died at Auschwitz. And while it was the Nazis who wished her dead, it was the French who put her in harm's way.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die.

Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder.

The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become and adult. I hope it's worth it.

I was in a race to see if I would die from the outside in or the inside out.

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. Andy Evans raped me in August when I was drunk and too young to know what was happening. It wasn't my fault. He hurt me. It wasn't my fault. And I'm not going to let it kill me. I can grow.

My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it.

The good soldier swears to kill. Fire the cannon, mount the barricade, lock and load. Smell your brother's blood on your shirt. Wipe your sister's brains off your face. Die, if you have to, so they'll live. Kill to keep your people alive, live to kill some more.

untreated pain is a cancer of the soul that can kill you