Quotes About Survival

Anyone who might have survived—even momentarily, by dint of having been entirely submerged—would have encountered the true meaning of hell, having been simultaneously flash-boiled, asphyxiated, and cooked from within as the blazing fuel–air mix penetrated all nonairtight objects. As

300 million people turned into jelly by The Wave and Rupert Murdoch wasn't one of them. There is no god.

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

Space, time, and objects might just be aspects of a sensory desktop specific to Homo sapiens. They might not be deep insights into objective truths, just convenient conventions that have evolved to allow us to survive in our niche.

Stephen Hawking has estimated: "Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next 1,000 or 10,000 years. By that time we should have spread out into space, . . .

In fact nobody died, nobody became ill, and nobody is expected to.

evolutionary psychologists have got it right. We are evolved beings and therefore our psychology will have to be understood in terms of natural selection, among other factors.

Civilizations do fail. We have never seen one that hasn't. The difference is that the torch of progress has, in the past, always passed to another region of the world. But we now for the first time have a single, global civilization. If it fails, we all fail together.

is likely to survive for another 100 billion years or more.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don't only have to rely on that. In a sense we've made ourselves into experimental animals. There are too many of us, too crowded, in an environment we've poisoned with our own-uh-byproducts. Now when this happens to a wild species, or to rats in a lab, the next generation turns out weaker and slower and more timid. This is a defense mechanism.

If you're going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

don't do things that kill you.

perhaps, now he finds more joy in life, having survived

True love is many things and can survive the strongest and most painful of times. When love comes out the other side of a fire, it may be scarred forever, but this bruised love is somehow only greater for having survived the pain.

They were all down there trying to wire the shackle. Each one of them alone, clinging to the stem of a mushroom anchor with one breath inside. One breath. It didn't matter if you got the shackle wired or not. There was no up. When your breath was done, no up." John Casey, Spartina

you can't describe a company or a leader as "great" until they have gone through a near-death experience and come back.

Till kicked and torn and beaten out he liesAnd leaves his hold and cackles, groans, and dies.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

It's a full-time job being homeless. It's a full-time job being poor.

Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink.

Came from nothing- less than nothing, because the poor always enter this life with their account in deficit, and generally leave it in much the same condition...