Quotes About Survival

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

But as the world turns I learned life is hell, Livin' in the world no different from a cell...

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival.

Of all things there remains to me only honor and life which is safe.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

What we eat is a matter of life and death.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.