Quotes About Survival

Be cautious of bears at all times, even when being mauled by a tiger.

I might not have the ability to ever carry a child and I have this damn bag for the time being – but I'm alive.

La gente piccola dev'essere solida per poter sopravvivere fra i grandi.

Thanks a lot! She went and hid somewhere else, somewhere safe- and left me to deal with Mr. Pyromaniac 1483!

Nina's wrists and ankles were rubbed raw from the handcuffs and ankle cuffs that chained her to the wall. The skin had been whipped from her back; even the slightest touch of her shirt against her spine sent pain shrieking through her body. One of her eyes seemed to be swollen shut from the beating.

The darkness is killing us.

I didn't ride out of a children's story. I rode out of fire and darkness and blood

Lizards that blend into the rock do so to catch flies.

By mid-afternoon, starving and dehydrated in the heat, he passed out on a plateau in the simmering sun. A few hours later he opened his eyes to an audience of gray wolves that came sniffing within arm's reach. He jumped to his feet, swatting one on the nose, and yelled at them — surprising himself at the sound of his own voice. They backed off as he hurled a stone at another, then they scattered and returned to howl mournfully at him.

Ici l'espoir est entier, la douleur est implantée dans l'espoir. Parfois je m'étonne de ne pas mourir : une lame glacée enfoncée profond dans la chair vivante, de nuit, de jour et on survit.

Erkek dayanamaz ac?ya, hemen al?p baÅŸka birine okutur; ac?y? ba??ndan atmas? gerekir, atadan kalma, beylik d??avurma yollar?ndan, savaÅŸa, vahÅŸete ve ç??l?klara, aç?l?p saç?lan bir söyleme gelip dayanan gayet tan?d?k yollardan, onu silkeleyip atmas? gerekir.

Hiroshima, Mon Amour

el amor por una persona determinada, aun siendo tan desgarrador, no suele ser sino un hermoso accidente pasajero, menos real en cierto sentido que las predisposiciones y opciones que lo preceden y que sobrevivirán a él.

Ne mettrez-vous pas fin à sauvage cri, Ce fauve hurlement des bêtes qu'on abat ? Jusqu'à quand, insensé, meurtrissant et meurtri, Dévoreras-tu ta propre substance ?… … Comme un père hébété égorge son enfant, Et prie, ô l'imbécile !

I'd so rather be a living snack than dead meat.

Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.

Drink never drown anyone's sorrows, he went on. It only teaches them how to swim.

This is...life, where hearts get kicked and bruised and broken, but somehow they still keep beating.

It never rains but it damn well pours and I was afraid I'd be washed away in the deluge.

The cottages are full of life. It's incredible to think they are filled with people who know nothing of computerised technology, nor even running water, sewage systems or electricity. And yet here they live. Surviving.

People with a lot of dead begin to lose the desire to live.

Without the test of heat, no metal proves its strength; without the test of life, no love can prove its worth. Rare is the love that survives the tests of the life she knew, but the pain from loves that failed those tests could fill more than one lifetime.

Our species is in trouble because we fight too much. We fight ourselves, each other, our planet, and God. Our fear-ridden ways are threatening our survival. A thoroughly loving person is like an evolutionary mutation, manifesting a being that puts love first and thus creates the context in which miracles occur.

Friedrich Nietzsche, "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.