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Quotes About Survival

Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.
~ Larry Niven
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
~ Laura Linney
The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.
~ Markus Zusak
You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.
~ Marya Hornbacher
Life is good, without it we'd all be dead.
~ Hannah
And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life is stronger than death.
~ Pearl S. Buck
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
~ Plautus
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.
~ Robin Quivers
The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.
~ Salman Rushdie
Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.
~ Stefanie Powers
There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.
~ Stephen Hawking
I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
~ Studs Terkel
You're not leaving me here alone," I say. Because if he dies, I'll never go home, not really. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.
~ Suzanne Collins
Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.
~ Sylvia Earle
The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
~ Ted Danson
Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.
~ Terry Goodkind
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.
~ Terry Pratchett
Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.
~ Theodore Roethke
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
~ Isaac Asimov
As long as there's life, there's hope.
~ Tamora Pierce
He killed himself for wanting to live.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief