Quotes About Survival

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

The worst happens, and life still goes on.

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don't come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

When there are no other options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.

When you fall, never get up without gaining anything. Always find something on the way up. If there are only rocks, grasp one to throw in order to defend yourself.

Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn't I wish you hadn't I wish you'd left me alone.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.

Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.

Most of what our students need to know hasn't been discovered or invented yet. "Learning how to learn" used to be an optional extra in education; today, it's a survival skill.

He plunged headlong into the tangle, hacking right and left with his curved blade. He saw the red-haired girl huddled in a narrow passageway between two houses. Her garments had been torn to shreds, and her flesh was raked and bruised. She was scrambling to her feet, still clutching the short dagger that had cut down a bandit. But before she could kick clear of her dead captor, another raider saw her and closed in.

I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.

It makes it hard to be alive, some days. A lot of times I wish I were dead, I truly do, just to make the pain stop.

Scavenger birds peck at the oozing matter that leaks from my crushed skull.

The truth is that we need invertebrates but they don't need us. If human beings were to disappear tomorrow, the world would go on with little change…. But if invertebrates were to disappear, I doubt that the human species could last more than a few months.