Quotes About Survival

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.

Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.

Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.

Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer is in a way nature's experiment with life.

Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same

What is the purpose of life? What is the primary objective of life? To live. To sustain itself.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

I'm fighting for my life, I have to defend myself. If I don't defend myself, no one else will.

When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.