Quotes About Survival

Yes, life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed. But it wasn't the best people who survived, nor did the best ones die. It was random!

I know this is insane, but I somehow wish I had been in Auschwitz with my parents so I could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.

Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

if they brought you here,They'll put you to work. THEY'RE not readyto kill you YET.

Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving.

No, darling! To die it's easy... But you have to struggle for life!

Es bueno ser simpatico si quieres vivir.

The joy that came to your caveman ancestor from finding a sweet berry on a bush couldn't occupy him for very long, lest he be distracted from the threat of the tiger, for whom your ancestor would make a nice lunch. That's why, when it comes to success, you can't ever get enough.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

'Borderlands' came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth of quality dungeon crawlers on the market.

It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

The Sun's magnetic field reverses every 11 years. There have been a quarter of a million reversals since our predecessor, Homo Habilis, emerged, and they haven't killed us yet.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop.

Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.