Quotes About Survival

The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we imagine.

Tudo se me tornou insuportável, exceto a vida

Everyone has his alcohol. To exist is alcohol enough for me.

Diyelim ki, beni boÄŸmakta olan bir eli boynumdan söküyorum. O eli söküp atan kendi elimin, beni kurtar?rken boynuma bir ip geçirdiÄŸini fark ediyorum. Ä°pi boynumdan dikkatle ç?kar?yorum, ama bu kez de kendi ellerimle boÄŸaz?m? s?kmama ramak kal?yor.

I'll die as I've lived, amid all the junk on the outskirts, sold by weight among the postscripts of the broken.

The Irish Times ran an editorial in 1956, full of dark intimations that the Irish would become like other indigenous peoples who had lost out in the Darwinian struggle for survival: 'What matters is that we will disappear as a composite race. We will add our name or names to those of the races that assimilate us; but as an entity, we will cease to exist.

People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won't survive the ordeal.

He saw that there was something alive in it, and went near enough to read a sign that said, TWO DEADLY ENEMIES. HAVE A LOOK FREE. There was a black bear about four feet long and very thin, resting on the floor of the cage; his back was spotted with bird lime that had been shot down on him by a small chicken hawk sitting on a perch in the upper part of the same apartment. Mose of the hawk's tail was gone; the bear only had one eye.

Anyone who has survived childhood, has enough material to write for the last of her life.

You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

My spleen burst. I remember feeling my heart beating really fast. Beating right out of my chest.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

For no fault of mine, I lost everything.

During the climb, I never get afraid. But you can't lose your fear - it is really important. If you lose it, you are going to die.

If you want to live, you have to face your fears.

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

I didn't become a caddie because I wanted to be a caddie. I was a caddie because that was how I could make money and feed myself. It was work. It was a dignified job.

It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food.

By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.

I fell off a bridge when I was, like, 17 years old and got electrocuted by 15,000 volts of electricity - fell 30 feet.

I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.

The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.

When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.