Quotes About Survival

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

No, Michael was all good. Killed, dismembered, buried, reborn…yeah, just another day in the life.

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?

But a living is not a life.

The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.

The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone.' (Nykyrian)

In the end, life makes victims of us all.