Quotes About Survival

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.

Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

While there's life, there's fear.

Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

wild animals in captivity and humans in civilization share an important quality: we are both examples of species living outside their natural habitats.

Deer get to live in the wild, and then they die fairly quickly from a well-placed shot to the vitals. For a deer, the most likely alternatives are a slower and more painful death by a nonhuman predator (i.e., getting torn apart by a coyote), starvation, or disease. Being killed by a skilled human hunter may well be the least painful way for a deer to die.

The best ways to motivate human beings are the oldest ways, tapping into timeless needs and emotions: hunger, thirst, fear of death, sex, beauty, identity, status, respect, honor, shame, love, compassion, community, fun. All of these tie back, directly or indirectly, to those most fundamental and evolutionary of motivations: survival and reproduction. The secret is learning how to tap these ancient motivations, and harnessing them to achieve modern goals.

A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that's left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime." Stoner

They beat me, and fucked me in every hole I had. I was their whore. Their maid. A stool they stood on when they wanted to reach a little higher. But I never sang in their cage, Bobby. Not one note.

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

Una guerra no sólo mata a unos cuantos miles o a unos cuantos cientos de miles de jóvenes. Mata algo en la gente que no puede recuperarse nunca. Y si alguien pasa por suficientes guerras, pronto todo lo que queda es el bruto, la criatura que nosotros —usted y yo, y otros como nosotros— han sacado del fango».

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the snow swirling around me like a flock of angry nuns, I stopped dead in my tracks. The time had come to take stock. Fair weather or foul, certain forces in the world were at work trying to destroy me.

It is better to die of drink then to die of thirst.

I was a coward. I said it aloud to myself: you are a coward. I didn't care. It was better to be a live coward than a dead madman.

Sin embargo, hay milagros en la vida. Un hombre puede cambiar, aunque sea para sobrevivir.

Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.