Quotes About Survival

When you're struggling to survive, no one gets to label you a coward, not even you yourself in your private thoughts.

No," I said, "when you're struggling to survive, no one gets to label you a coward, not even you yourself in your private thoughts.

What are my thoughts on this whole ordeal?" she repeated, pausing to contemplate. And then she thought of the perfect answer. "Ali didn't manage to kill us," she said. "She only made us stronger.

all of us are damaged in our own ways. It's just that most people call it 'experience'. And you've had a lot of experience.

I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything. —A

This doesn't mean you're damaged. It just means your mind has adapted to feelings of being unsafe. It's a coping mechanism

The jungle is alive. It's dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility.

He didn't look as if he'd been through a whirlwind exactly but he'd certainly endured a stiff breeze.

Forget diamonds or dogs—a girl or boy's best friend is always a high-powered weapon.

Your need to kill me is not greater than my need to use you," Tamra informed the kehok.

Yet, as I will make clear, any Pleistocene woman who relied on looks alone to pull offspring through was not likely to be a mother very long or leave descendants.

Just because humans have become -advanced- enough to vaccinate their young, write histories, and speculate about our origins, this does not mean that evolutionary processes have ceased to operate.

Just because humans have become "advanced" enough to vaccinate their young, write histories, and speculate about our origins, this does not mean that evoutionary processes have ceased to operate.

At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.