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Quotes About Survival

The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.
~ Jared Diamond
Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.
~ Grant Achatz
We are not born to survive. Only to live.
~ W. S. Merwin
Remember, vote for life. It may be your own.
~ Mother Angelica
Name Yellow Wolf comes from life experiences. Yellow is the color of the sun - its power, fire, and hunger. Wolf represents my fierceness and ability to survive.
~ Yelawolf
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
~ Jack London
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
~ Jose Marti
I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.
~ Marina and the Diamonds
If you do something and it saves your life, it was good taijutsu. In a real fight, you aren't worried about what's pretty.
~ Masaaki Hatsumi
Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
~ Richard Paul Evans
This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
~ Terry Pratchett
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
~ Jack London
Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.
~ Rick James
If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.
~ Charley Reese
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.
~ Dan Wells
I did not die, and yet I lost life's breath
~ Dante Alighieri
You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
~ Elia Kazan
Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.
~ Charles Goodnight
When you have life, you can weather any storm. You're breathing. You have life.
~ DJ Khaled
Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.
~ James C. Collins
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.
~ William O. Douglas
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
~ Maya Angelou
My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw
~ Thomas McGuane