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Quotes About Survival

Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.
~ Peter Agre
I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die.
~ Michelle Ryan
To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.
~ Art Spiegelman
The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.
~ Ludwig Boltzmann
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
~ Jo Nesbo
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
~ Barbara De Angelis
No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.
~ Jeff Goldblum
Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
~ Martin Bormann
When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.
~ Khushwant Singh
Life is a fight, but not everyone's a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
~ Andrew Vachss
Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.
~ Dr. Seuss
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.
~ Coolio
I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.
~ Daniel Boone
Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.
~ John Galt
Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'
~ Grace Jones
There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.
~ John Boyne
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Clearly we could devastate the world... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands
~ David Attenborough
I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.
~ Etta James
Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.
~ Levon Helm
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
~ Freya Stark
You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.
~ James Dashner