Quotes About Survival

When you're held underwater, you think only of air.

The machete has been tested, and the rice already cooked.

If you are afraid for your life, you don't think about others. You think only about the people you love, and even that may not be enough.

The typhoon that hit us wasn't the worst we'd ever experienced, but we were all so much weaker in our bodies and minds that the impact was just one more remorseless blow.

She's grabbed onto old traditions-outdated traditions- in the same way I latch onto them now: as a means of survival, as a way to hang on to ghost memories.

We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.

Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks.

Honestly, I tried not to think about my sister much. Or my mother. I have been guilty of doing what it takes to bury most of my memories when it comes to that- from junk food to booze to drugs, there are few poisons with which I haven't experimented. I've found a million ways to keep the demons in a comfortable, quiet stupor, lazing around on my inner couches.

We pick our own predators.

It is not the strongest among us who survive. Nor is it the most intelligent. It is those among us who are the most adaptable to change.

He's dead, Annie. But as long as you haven't dealt with the memories of the things he has done to you, he'll live on. We'll always have to face these times when you think he's returned for you. You'll never be free." It

Wasn't there some belief about how if you drop a frog into boiling water, it will jump right out? But if you put it in cold water and turn up the heat gradually, it will allow itself to slowly cook to death?

This was what happened. Abused boys became dangerous men. Those around them with a self-preservation instinct—even the people who loved them—started to move away.

When life is reduced to the survival of someone you love, everything else reveals itself as trivial.

The thought of losing him again kills me. This is of course a figure of speech, I will remain alive, but I will not know happiness.

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways.

You will fail. Then they will kill you. - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

felt. Storm.

and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.

There was no fuel now for the homes and apartments in Copenhagen, and the winter nights were terribly cold.

Together the fugitives slept though the first dangerous day.

Fear was always a part of life for the people. Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. There was fear of cold, of sickness and hunger.

When your young life offered its first disaster, naturally it loomed large. After you'd survived dozens, you basically just told the next one to take a number and get in line.