Quotes About Survival

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

Looks like I'm going to ruin your day, Big Boy. I choose to live my crappy life a little longer. (Susan)

After running for my life from hunters, a girl with too much lip gloss doesn't register on my fear radar.

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.

If I'd stopped believing that my life would eventually get better, I don't think I would have survived high school.

Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

I've seen a lot in my life. My dad was pretty gnarly but I loved him and I wouldn't change it for the world. My mom's a survivor.

Every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life - we were just trying to make it to next week.

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

Living is a hazardous profession.

The bullet we're running from is almost never the one that hits us

I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the beast rises from the pit - we will kill it.

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.

Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.

When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.

As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers - just haven't made it and haven't had a chance.

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.