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Quotes About Survival

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.
~ John Irving
The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.
~ John Lydon
It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
~ John Muir
Consider this on your birthday You've got life's struggle beaten For 60 years you've ate And avoided being eaten
~ John Walter Bratton
Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.
~ Jonathan Franzen
If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.
~ Justin Cronin
Jericho." "Mac." "Thank you for saving my life. Again.
~ Karen Marie Moning
A 7-11 parking lot beat down is how life is.
~ Karl Hess
I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
I've always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.
~ Keira Knightley
It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.
~ Ken Blanchard
All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?
~ Ken MacLeod
How many mistakes can one life survive?
~ Kim Harrison
Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.
~ Kim Harrison
Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Photography has saved my life, over and over again.
~ Laurel Nakadate
In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.
~ Liam Neeson
He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Everything looks beautiful in Life of Pi.
~ Lisa Schwarzbaum
All life is a struggle in the dark.
~ Lucretius
I'd rather lose her from my life, but know she was alive and well than lose her altogether to death.
~ Lynsay Sands
'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...
~ Marat Safin
Scars are but evidence of life.
~ Marcia Lynn McClure
I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.
~ Mariane Pearl