Quotes About Survival

when they had the financial security that came at the end of the harvest, they were on average thirteen IQ points smarter - an extraordinary gap. Why would that be? Anyone reading this who's ever been financial stressed knows part of the answer instinctively. When you are worried about how to survive financially, everything - from a broken washing machine to a child's lost shoe - becomes a threat to your ability to get through the week. You become more vigilant

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - "voluntarily" sell - himself every day and hour to the "beast of property."

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

It's only life. We all get through it.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

In the midst of death life persists.

Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.

The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.

The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.