logo

Quotes About Survival

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.
~ Suzanne Collins
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.
~ George Wald
You put the life in your belly and you live.
~ Hannibal
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
~ Haruki Murakami
Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.
~ Hayley Mills
During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.
~ Henny Youngman
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
~ James Lovelock
Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.
~ Joan Collins
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
~ Cary Fowler
There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.
~ Daniel Wolpert
I've always had life threats, and they've always been for real.
~ Debbie Reynolds
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
~ Deepak Chopra
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
~ Elie Wiesel
Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while
~ Ellen Hopkins
As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.
~ Etgar Keret
There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.
~ Anna Kendrick
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
~ Armistead Maupin
A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
~ Karin Slaughter
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
~ Keith Richards
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
~ Kurt Vonnegut