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Quotes About Survival

If you do not change, you can become extinct !
~ Spencer Johnson
I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.
~ Tilda Swinton
I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
~ Tom Waits
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.
~ Willard Gaylin
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
~ William Shakespeare
I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.
~ Leonard Peltier
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
~ Louise Erdrich
Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good
~ Dmitry Pisarev
The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
~ Ann Landers
He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life
~ George Chuvalo
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
No one survives life.
~ Sarah Kane
All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.
~ Shirley MacLaine
If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.
~ Siobhan Fahey
You can't stop living
~ Jennifer Niven
The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe—I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.
~ Jennifer Niven
I was alive. I burned brightly. And then I died, but not really. Because someone like me cannot, will not, die like everybody else
~ Jennifer Niven
Extenuating Circumstances. That is me. That is Violet Markey. Poor forever-changed Violet and her Extenuating Circumstances.
~ Jennifer Niven
I'm afraid they have been eat up by the elements.' Just like all of us.
~ Jennifer Niven
There was nothing to make him last.
~ Jennifer Niven
It's only when you panic that you pull yourself under and sink
~ Jennifer Niven
Don't get me wrong – I'd rather be here than dead – but sometimes I feel that everything that, like, makes me up has gone away.
~ Jennifer Niven
Ho vissuto ardentemente. E poi sono morto, ma non del tutto. Perché quelli come me non muoiono come chiunque altro. Persisto, come la leggenda del Blue Hole.
~ Jennifer Niven