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Quotes About Survival

But if you survived melancholia and rotting lungs it was possible to live long in this valley.
~ Laurie Lee
Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.
~ Laurie R. King
The world's a bastard. Life just happens to people.
~ Lawrence Block
When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.
~ Lawrence Block
she had been raped by one of her relations. One cannot help smiling at the commonplaceness of the thought.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
~ Julio Cortazar
I survive at the edge of friends circles.
~ Holly Black, Red Glove
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
~ Salvador Dali
I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.
~ Loung Ung
Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.
~ Fred D'Aguiar
But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
~ Alice Walker
He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.
~ Ian McEwan, Atonement
If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die
~ Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque
You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?
~ Patrick Carman, Pulse
All the broken hearts in the world still beat
~ Ingrid Michaelson
Everybody's damaged by something.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
Flowers that bloom in the winter may not survive till spring.
~ K. Hari Kumar
When feeling sad, dream on! When feeling happy, dream on! You shall survive by means of your dreams!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life goes on... with or without you.
~ Faraaz Kazi
To me, I see scars of courage. Inflicting them gave him the strength to survive the pain that's plagued him all his life. I'm grateful to every one of them because he's still here, with me.
~ Nicola Haken, Broken
Im here and he's not. That I'm alive and he's…
~ Beth Revis, Shades of Earth
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
~ Neil Armstrong
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
~ Herbert Spencer
If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
~ Carl Safina