Quotes About Survival

I had turned my mind from my survival just as a man suffering from a deadly sickness manages by a thousand tricks never to look at death squarely; or rather, as a woman alone in a large house refrains from looking into mirrors, and instead busies herself with trivial errands, so that she may catch no glimpse of the thing whose feet she hears at times on the stairs.

if a pauper were to leap from the parapet of this bridge each time we draw breath, we should live forever, because the city breeds and breaks men faster than we respire.

Though trodden beneath the shepherd's heel, the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground. He

I had survived, and I should be dead. I was haunted by my own life.

For naturally a beast desires to flee From any enemy that he may see, Though never yet he's clapped on such his eye.

Love's only business is to preserve the race, not the individual.

Under natural selection, species adapt to their environments. When the environment refers to a species' physical habitat, this seems simple enough. If a species lives in the Arctic, it had better evolve some warm fur. Under sexual selection, species adapt too, but they adapt to themselves. Females adapt to males, and males adapt to females. Sexual preferences adapt to the sexual ornaments avaliable, and sexual ornaments adapt to sexual preferences.

Woyzeck Us poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation

HECTOR Well, I don't mean to be drowned like a rat in a trap. I still have the will to live. What am I to do? CAPT. SHOTOVER Do? Nothing simpler. Learn your business as an Englishman. HECTOR And what may my business as an Englishman be, pray? CAPT. SHOTOVER Navigation. Learn it and live; or leave it and be damned.

There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion

When a man says money can do anything that settles it: he hasn't got any. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.

I wanna live. I don't wanna die. That's the whole meaning of life: Not dying! I figured that shit out by myself in the third grade

A cat will blink when struck with a hammer.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little Styrofoam. Maybe. A little Styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.

Whenever I hear about parents who have nine or ten children, the only thing I wonder is how they survive the birthday parties.

We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.

Ziemia przetrwaÅ'a gorsze rzeczy ni? my. TrzÄ™sienia ziemi, wybuchy wulkanów, ruchy tektoniczne, dryf kontynentalny, rozbÅ'yski sÅ'oneczne, plamy na sÅ'oÅ"cu, burze magnetyczne, zmiany biegunów magnetycznych, setki tysiÄ™cy lat bombardowania przez asteroidy, meteory i komety, globalne powodzie i po?ary, promieniowanie kosmiczne, epoki lodowcowe... i niby jakieÅ› papierowe torby i aluminiowe puszki majÄ… jej zrobi? ró?nicÄ™?

Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.