Quotes About Survival

Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.

And these have been successfully tested. Well, tested, sure. They've been tested. Each time they're tested, we assemble what data we can, and the next generation of pods comes back just a bit more intact. Face & Luke

Sometimes a place to work, or a place to relax--even if only for an hour--is all you need. That, and good friends. Without those things, the city will break you into a million tiny pieces. But what in the world could be harder to find?

The cost of survival of the lineage may be a lifetime of discomfort.

Australian Aborigines slept with their dogs for warmth on cold nights, the coldest being a "three dog night." —WIKIPEDIA

There is a high cost of living to be paid by a Jew. He has to be exalted in order to be normal in a world that is neither propitious for nor sympathetic to his survival.

Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were

Primo Levi of his experience at Auschwitz. "But they

more than 35 percent of all German men who were between the ages of 19 and 22 when the fighting broke out, for example, were killed in the next four and a half years, and many of the remainder grievously wounded. For France, the toll was proportionately even higher: one half of all Frenchmen aged 20 to 32 at the war's outbreak were dead when it was over.

One traveler to the Congo came on a deserted town where a fifteen-foot boa constrictor was dining on smallpox victims' flesh, and on another where the vultures were so gorged that they were too heavy to fly.

But there was something foxlike about the manner in which this constitutional monarch of a small, increasingly democratic country became the totalitarian ruler of a vast empire on another continent. Stealth and dissembling would be his trusted devices, just as the fox relies on these qualities to survive in a world of hunters and larger beasts.

Back to his various modes of escape and survival. Because you have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Nature is not cruel, it is simply indifferent

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But one half the children born, it is computed, die before the age of manhood.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si abordas cada situación como asunto de vida o muerte, morirás muchas veces (Adam Smith)

As J. G. Ballard pointed out, civilization is just a thin, fragile veneer over the law of the jungle: Better you than me. Better your kid than my kid.

No one confiscated the penknife. Which was lucky for Heather. Because two days later it would save her life.

Whoa, girlfriend! I was wondering if I was ever going to hear from you again. Pretty sure the hitchhiker killers or the spiders were going to get you.

Even an imbecile knows that you never come between a grizzly - bear mama and her cub.

There were no monsters on Dutch Island, but the beast was man, had always been man.

Fire became an enemy only if you couldn't move.