Quotes About Survival

How the flowers were fired and colored into the design. Perhaps this sort of gesture will be lost, perhaps it is a function of consciousness that we don't need in order to survive. Perhaps this piece of evolution makes no sense—our hunger for everyday sorts of visual pleasure—but I don't think so. I think we have survived because we love beauty and because we find each other beautiful. I think it may be our strongest quality.

Animals never cry. They don't go to pieces and call somebody and go through a box of Kleenex an hour.

But as Rachel watched the sheriff enter the front door, it was hard to believe the farmhouse itself was still there, because a place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world. The earth itself shouldn't be able to abide it.

To add a dash of picturesqueness to her career, her husband, it was said, was doing his utmost to get rid of her; and although she had been in an aeroplane disaster, a fatal gala performance, two railway accidents, and a shipwreck, she always came back - smiling.

Paranoia is sometimes the best way a person can handle situations in life.

The [ hashishiyyin ] Assassins probably knew that the intoxication is a privilege reserved for those who can afford to avoid physical responsibilities. They did not go to work under the influence of the drug for the same reasons that animals in the wild, who must fight for survival, do not overdo their ingestion of intoxicating plants.

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

Soon after man shows up in new lands, the big game starts to go missing. […] A bad smell of extinction follows Home sapiens around the world. (37)

When the prey of the sabre-toothed cat died out, so did the cat.

La buena noticia es que, si sobrevives, el sufrimiento enseña. La mala noticia es que el verdadero sufrimiento casi siempre mata.

la locura es un enemigo que acecha durante toda la vida, un buitre que te ronda para devorarte. Aún peor: es un buitre impaciente que comienza a roerte las entrañas cuando aún no has muerto.

El miedo es un parásito, un invasor.

Je parle de cette douleur qui est tellement grande qu'elle ne semble même pas naître à l'intérieur de vous, c'est plutôt comme si vous aviez été enseveli par une avalanche.

The only way to make disasters bearable is to laugh about them.

torture and killing were as ingrained a part of their lives and beliefs as breathing. Such behavior was expected by the Comanche.

he hated the constant danger of Indian attack; but being here was better than being in jail back in New Orleans for robbery and assault.

Sometimes the sorrow deep inside can slowly kill as surely as disease or hunger.

And he understood that now, more than ever in his life, there was nothing and no one to cushion him from the hardness of the earth.

In real life, the big things and the little things are inextricably mixed up together, so in Libya at one moment, one worried because one's native boots were full of holes, and at the next, perhaps, one wondered how long one would be alive to wear them.

If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.

What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason? he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control. For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kill me! (Marsh, heroine of Insufficient Mating Material)

The objective of US colonialist authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples—not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide as contrasted with premodern instances of extreme violence that did not have the goal of extinction.

Condemned to death, the Delawares spent the night praying and singing hymns. In the morning, Williamson's men marched over ninety people in pairs into two houses and methodically slaughtered them.

The ancient Irish social system was systematically attacked, traditional songs and music forbidden, whole clans exterminated, and the remainder brutalized. A "wild Irish" reservation was even attempted. The