Quotes About Survival

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad's life.

Surviving means being born over and over.

The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

A miracle happened: another day of life.

You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on.

I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.