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Quotes About Survival

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.
~ John Flanagan
I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.
~ Jon Gordon
Zindagi migzara (life goes on)
~ Khaled Hosseini
A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.
~ Lenore Terr
Any day alive in this world is a charmed life.
~ Mark Donaldson
If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
~ Mary J. Blige
There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.
~ David Levithan
IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.
~ Chris Howard, Rootless
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
~ Ian McDonald, Brasyl
Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.
~ Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
~ Patrick Ness, More Than This
No one escapes from life alive.
~ Michael Crichton, Congo
What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
~ Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive
Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
~ David Gemmell, Dark Moon
The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.
~ Ami Ayalon
The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
~ Boris Sidis
I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen.
~ Brad Willis
Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.
~ Christina Stead
Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay