Quotes About Survival

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.

When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

I'm still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.

The bottom line is that my life has already almost slipped away from me. I have two choices: I can end it or I can fight like hell to save it.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

I understood your hope came not from some belief in the triumph of good or the kindness of politicians and bureaucrats. Your hope came from within; something inside you harbored and nourished a spark that had not been squelched and would always burn inside you and those you were able to touch. I came to believe that light inside came from the pride of knowing you were part of a long line in history that could survive.

A repeating refrain I wrote for Bones & Ash, the theatrical adaptation of this novel, is the spine upon which the story rests: "We take blood, not life, and leave something in exchange." In order to answer any of the questions the book raises we must take blood—metaphorically speaking. That is, we must learn how to break through the surface, find the deep dangerous place where blood flows without hurting one other, and share all that we know and love in order to survive.

this moment past peak oil, a large percentage of blockbuster movies are apocalyptic; superheroes are in vogue. What does the black imagination have to offer to the survival of human life on planet earth?

Gilda was no longer fleeing for her life.

Where ever i go, the Cultural Revolution followed me

Life was very hard, so hard that I could hardly breathe sometimes

animals like bears or cougars. It was a marvel they hadn't yet seen anything more vicious

Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is maddeningly uneven, asymmetrical, & unfair.

Another debate merged politics and technology. Could the nation's new democratic traditions survive in the

There were about three million people on that island, land of mountains, when Columbus landed; fifty years later, there were only five hundred; everyone else had died, their songs unsung.

hoping some would-be robber or rapist or killer would find her and do her the favor of ending what she herself could not. But nothing bad had ever happened.

This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.

Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated.