Quotes About Survival

Out in the forsaken city, every other structure, it seems, is burning or collapsing, but here in front of him is the inverse in miniature: the city remains, but the house he occupies is gone.

Beneath his feet the snail kept on, feeling its way forward, dragging the house of its shell, fitting its body to the sand, to the private unlit horizons that whorled all around it.

This look?" Bastian says, and flourishes his fat hand. "The way he's got nothing left? A German soldier never reaches this point. There's a name for this look. It's

This look?" Bastian says, and flourishes his fat hand. "The way he's got nothing left? A German soldier never reaches this point. There's a name for this look. It's called 'circling the drain.'

Maybe his body is giving up. If he does not eat, he understands, he will die. But when he does eat, he fells as if he will die.

Wherever her great-uncle is, could he have survived this? Could anyone? Has she?

You'll die of old age, we'll die of climate change.

It is as if he has been drowning for as long as he can remember and somebody has fetched him up for air.

every lost book, before it vanished forever, got down to one final copy somewhere, and how it made Hillary think about seeing a white rhinoceros in a zoo in Czechoslovakia once, how the sign said the rhino was one of the last twenty northern white rhinos in the world, the only one left in Europe

Only about one in fifteen great grey eggs hatch and make it to adulthood. Hatchlings get eaten by ravens, martens, black bears, and great horned owls; nestlings often starve. Because they require such extensive hunting grounds, great greys are particularly vulnerable to habitat loss: cattle trample meadows, decimating prey numbers; wildfires incinerate nesting areas; the owls eat rodents that have eaten poison, die in vehicle collisions, and fly into utility wires.

I'm only alive because I have not yet died.

They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.

Opera houses! Cities on the moon! Ridiculous. They would all do better to put their faces on the curbs and wait for the boys who come through the city dragging sledges stacked with corpses.

Casi todas las especies que han existido alguna vez se han extinguido en el presente. No hay ningún motivo para pensar que con la raza humana vaya a ocurrir algo distinto.

To survive here required one to sip the air; the wide sky belonged to the nobles.

Anything can be lived around, so long as it's only you who has to do it.

By then Mkondo had become more than a game; it was the one way she could be certain she was alive.

And then I feel the Big Sadness coming on, like there's a shiny and sharp axe blade buried inside my chest. The only way I can stay alive is to remain absolutely motionless so instead of whispering Dear God how could you do this to me, I only whisper Amen

Gnaeus escaped the battle, but was quickly caught and killed.

Caesar remarked wryly: "I have often fought for victory, but on this occasion I fought for my life as well.

panicked and fled. Many were killed. Ariobarzanes himself escaped into the hills with forty cavalrymen and five thousand foot.

In this way he would avoid the humiliation of falling into Caesar's hands and, worse, having to endure a pardon.

Eventually, only one person was left beside the ashes—Julia Augusta, widow and now daughter of the dead princeps.

Only ten thousand of his men survived the debacle. Humiliatingly, many legionary standards were captured.