Quotes About Survival

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe – has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance…That is the first discovery, that Christianity is essential to civilization and that it is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.

I personally have no doubt,' he said, 'and I am confirmed in my opinion by many reports, that great encouragement is given to our allies and sympathizers throughout the world by the survival' (laughter) 'in this country of what is almost unique in present conditions, a periodical entirely independent of official direction.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived.

A classic is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

A classic, suggested Anthony, is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion….

Now there was this scarcely saved waif of disaster bringing him the essence of a continent...

All the city was playing with this sound out there in the blue summer dark, throwing it up and calling it back, promising that, in a little while, life would be beautiful as a story, promising happiness – and by that promise giving it. It gave love hope in its own survival. It could do no more.

Yet her tired heart, beating until it shook her breasts, made her sure that there was still life in her, desperately shaken, threatened…

I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

We must be kind and forgive one another or we won't survive. But even among the most religious there seems to be a great blind spot covering the world, an inability to learn from past experience. Civilization is as precarious as a sand castle. All the care and effort it took to create it can be knocked down in a second by some bully or another. And the world is full of bullies.

She felt her heart open and fill with the pure wonder of being alive and making it through.

It was the story of her life and probably how she had survived this long: with a little talent and a lot of flair.

She was too hurt to cry….You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

A heart can be broken but it keeps on beating just the same ~ Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

As many as 1 million plant and animal species (of 8 million total) are threatened with extinction, some within a few decades.

The top 20 centimeters of soil is all that stands between us and extinction.

warriors and statesmen who survived believed that they had a duty to create a world that did not lapse back into nihilistic competition.

Mi hanno fatto tanto male che non mi possono curare nessuna ferita. Tutto il mio corpo è una ferita. Non credo di dovertelo spiegare. E se alla fine mi rimanesse una cicatrice, sarebbe come quella di chi si è interamente bruciato. Io, tutta intera, sarei una cicatrice.

De hecho, lo raro y excepcional es estar vivo.