Quotes About Survival

As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

No other animal on earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn't. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet's random geological savagery.

Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

Unless you have money today, you cannot live life according to your need.

We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

I believe pain is nature's way of saying, 'You're still alive, and life sucks.'

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

Scientists have theorized that when Earth comes to its final days, the only life left on the planet would be in the form of microbes.

The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.

I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

The difference between trying to be fit and not being fit really means the difference between life and death.

If we do destroy most life on this planet, science says it won't be the first time.

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life.

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.