Quotes About Survival

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

My life was pretty rough.

Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

Life itself is your proper meal.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.

We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

You should have died when I killed you.

I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.