Quotes About Survival

If you weren't good for making food, shelter, or babies, then you were tossed out on your own.

I wasn't afraid of the dark nearly as much as I was afraid of the monsters who hunted by night and day.

My parents sold blood for money to buy food. Poverty was our spirit animal.

When people consider the meaning of genocide, they might only think of corpses being pushed into mass graves. But a person can be genocided—can have every connection to his past severed—and live to be an old man whose rib cage is a haunted house built around his heart.

Self-preservation was my religion.

Sherman Alexie (Author)

People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.

There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going. (Acheron) Is that what you do? (Tory) No, I beat shit up – that helps even more. (Acheron)

Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis

I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

Hey! Caleb snapped as he realized Nick was about to lock him on the outside with their attackers. He pushed the door open and glared at him. No man left behind. Nick scoffed. This aint' the army, boy. It's every man for himself. Fall behind. Get eaten

It would have really cramped my future plans had I died. (Nick)

Yeah, right. Life is a soul-sucking test that you either survive or you fail. Personally, I think failure blows, so I intend to survive and laugh my ass off at all the losers. (Nick)

You, psycho-ass, and Talon, I'll cover, but not him. (Nick) Psycho-ass? Hmm, I like that. (Zarek) Nick– (Acheron) It's all right, Greek. I would rather die than have his plebeian help anyway. (Valerius) Make that three votes, then. I would rather he died, too. Now all together, let's vote this asshole off the island. (Zarek)

Man, first I'm shot, now I'm going to be a friggin' zombie. At this rate, I'll never live to have my first date or a driver's license. Ah, gah! I've come too far to die a predestrian virgin. Bubba, you can't let me die…I only have seventeen more months and three days to my sixteenth birthday! (Nick)

There were only so many kicks a dog could take before it turned vicious.' (Acheron)

In the end, life makes victims of us all.

you're right Acheron. I am a selfish bastard. I had to be, because no one else gave a single shit about me except me

What's going on? (Astrid) Not much. Some invincible asshole is trying to kill me. (Zarek)

Possible or not, they tried to turn me into a Nick McNugget. (Nick)

Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. (Dante) Law of my jungle. Kill them all and let Hades sort them out. (Zarek)

Don't push me, Savitar.(Apollymi) And don't push me. You may be a goddess by birth, but I'm a lot more than just a Chthonian and you know that. I survived a hell you can't even imagine and its fires forged a core of steel within me. You want to battle, pick up your sword. But remember the number of gods before you who sought to kill me and failed. (Savitar)

We don't need your pity. We get along just fine without it and them other things too. You don't need electronic crap to live. You know, people lived for thousands of years without it. There's a big difference between stuff you want and stuff you need. (Nick)

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six