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Quotes About Survival

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
~ Yann Martel
Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.
~ Eileen Myles
If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
~ Gale Norton
But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.
~ Isak Dinesen
I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.
~ Jim Kaat
I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.
~ Joe Perry
I struggled for a long time with survivin', and no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for.
~ Joel Osteen
If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.
~ Martin Seligman
What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.
~ Carl Sagan
Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.
~ Cassandra Clare
The last time I took drugs, I probably took more than anybody could survive.
~ Charlie Sheen
Sad when you spend more time trying to stay alive than living.
~ J. B. Smoove
If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.
~ Mark Lynas
I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.'
~ Mireya Mayor
I've taken my cue from people here and from viewers, especially survivors-who said, 'When it's time to literally flip your wig, you'll know.'
~ Robin Roberts
Each time I wake,I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.
~ Suzanne Collins
I want to live. I didn't have time to die.
~ Tionne Watkins
We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League.
~ Vincent Tan
I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.
~ Walter Payton
Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
~ Zhang Yimou
Usually, if you're buried alive, that's gonna be the last time that happens, isn't it?
~ Alice Eve
A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.
~ Andy Rooney
Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.
~ Barry N. Malzberg