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Quotes About Survival

Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.
~ T.I.
Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.
~ Tupac Shakur
What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.
~ Mark Rowlands
Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.
~ Michio Kaku
My unhappiness protects me from life.
~ Orhan Pamuk
It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
~ Freeman Dyson
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
~ Even death has a heart.
I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.
~ Kiowa Gordon
The death of the forest is the end of our life.
~ Dorothy Stang
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
~ Herbert Spencer
What is the key to life on Earth?
~ Aidan Gillen
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
~ Horace Greeley
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.
~ Janet Morris
Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
~ Jasper Fforde
You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.
~ William Shakespeare
For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
~ Bill Nye
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
~ Edmund Wilson
Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.
~ George Zimmerman
Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.
~ Kim Stanley
To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
~ Willie Stargell
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.
~ Yann Martel
I have come to the conclusion that it is attitude that determines how you handle and survive life.
~ Sara Henderson