Quotes About Survival

But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.

Being alive begin to seem like a awful strain.

THEY CANNOT KILL US, BECAUSE WITHOUT US THEY DIE.

Yeah, I say. He make it up in cigarettes, sell 'em for a dime. It rot your breath, I say, but yall want to try one? Not if it make us crazy, say Sofia. It hard enough to get by without being a fool.

learned from them that he couldn't wait for Fanny to share, "we survived living in New York. Fight with me," he said. "Scream. You have nice big teeth; bite me." Fanny's lovely mouth was shaping the words, in horror, "Bite me?" "But don't just go off inside yourself and assume

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

What I love best about Shug is what she been through, I say. When you look in Shug's eyes you know she been where she been, seen what she seen, did what she did. And now she know.

Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it.

But she keep on. You got to fight. You got to fight. But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

Race will no longer matter, or sex, or gender, or orientation of any description. How we will survive will be our only concern, and who will be with us.

I'm pore, black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!

They were given Christian names that went with their new summarily acquired (with the help of the lash and the threat of annihilation) religion, and then, having been branded on face or body, they were prodded onto the ships, packed, as the cliché goes, like sardines in a can.

it is the sense that something that was alive for a very long time is still alive. Not yet beaten into submission or oblivion by those who kill everything they touch with money.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

I know I should be grateful, and I am. Parents are good. Sisters are good. I'm still alive. But that's not really enough, is it? That's low-bar shit. Living is more than surviving and scraping by, as if one should be grateful to have a pulse.

Adaptation is care work. Adaptation is survival. Adaptation is a negotiation between the past and the present. Adaptation is a science and art. Adaptation pushes boundaries and creates new futures..

Here's the vital core of Winnicott's theory: The subject must destroy the object. And the object must survive this destruction. If the object doesn't survive, it will remain internal, a projection of the subject's self. If the object survives destruction, the subject can see it as separate.

Even a cornered rabbit will fight with teeth and claws.

war was a dangerous business, and those who escaped death at the hands of the enemy often perished as a result of the dysentery and disease that could decimate armies.

Alistair Moffat

Femeile nu se descurc? bine în spaÅ£iu, pentru c? în evoluÅ£ia lor n-au vînat altceva decît b?rbaÅ£i.

Physically I was so low that I knew that if I didn't stop I would soon be dead, yet mentally I was so dependent on my 'crutch' that I was prepared to die rather than stop.

We don't have to fully perceive or understand the underlying nature of our world to negotiate it well. Our senses and reasoning powers evolved as they did because they work just fine in the everyday, nonphilosophical business of survival. Mental constructs of reality are imperfect, but indispensable, ways to organize the otherwise bewildering phenomena of the world.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene