Quotes About Survival

Most of life is unbearable. It's unbearable but we bear it

It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.

The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.

A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

On one hand, they [prostitutes] don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life.

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.

I had to survive a lot. I didn't premeditate my life. Life just happened as it did. And I had to figure it out as I went along.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.

I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.

Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.

All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.

I owe my life to blood donors. They went out, rolled up a sleeve and gave me another chance at life.

A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function.

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.