Quotes About Survival

We soon lost all sense of privacy in the camp. There was no effort to conceal ugliness and deformity, whether of body or of soul. One saw much that was ugly beyond words.

At 6 a.m., it's already 89º. Soon it'll be too hot for any gyrating of the larynx. Too hot to cry, too hot to fly. When all the world lies down at noon, you better get your partying in at dawn.

You're strong and that helped you, but this doesn't have to define you. You are a young woman with your whole life ahead of you. Don't confuse what you had to do to survive with who you are.

You can go three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water, and three weeks without food.

When it comes to basic survival, you want to remember the rule of threes: You can go three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water, and three weeks without food. Prioritize accordingly.

Dad, I don't know why I'm still alive... Because God took pity on me, Kimberly. Because without you, I think I would've gone insane.

Survival isn't a destination. It's a journey. And most of the people I help, they're still getting there.

when she'd feared they hadn't rescued a woman after all, but only a shell of one.

Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.