Quotes About Survival

The fact is that a survival of all the early stages alongside the final form is only possible in the mind, and that it is impossible for us to represent a phenomenon of this kind in visual terms.

no serious book can now be sure of surviving.

Man seems not to have been endowed, or to have been endowed to only a very small degree, with an instinctive recognition of the dangers that threaten him from without.

Before man, the forest; after him, the desert.

Let's face it, this is America. Anything that's bad for business, people don't want to hear. When it comes to money or doing the right thing, most people are going to choose money. Close up shop for months till they can make a new vaccine? How many businesses would still be alive after that?

People ought to be able to understand that this is my way of fighting, she says. Cancer can't get me if I get me first. And what's the sense in waiting, she says, when I'm ready to go.

There is an animal in all of us who knows how to survive.

Terror does things to you. It hardens a part of you. I have heard people call others hard-hearted, but it's not your heart that turns to stone when something awful happens. It's your gut, where all real feelings come from. That was froze up inside me and I didn't long to thaw it.

Horror can only be borne if one ceases to think of the individual identity of those involved;

I was reminded of an African proverb: when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

In a blink of a life my brother James, mother and I lost a vital part of our tiny family. We were devastated. I felt completely bereft. And then 9/11 happened. And I had written the only book in the world about the group behind the devastating attack.

If there's one thing I've learned in all my years watching men shed blood in the arena, it's this. Being a gladiator isn't just about physical strength. It's about thinking on your feet. You, young man … you show admirable resourcefulness when your back is against the wall

Los hombres eran endurecidos en Rabka para que no se derrumbaran tras unas pocas semanas de servicios y tenían que hacerse insensibles a la sangre, a los gritos de agonía de mujeres y niños, debiendo realizar el trabajo con el mínimo ruido y la máxima eficacia

Sobrevivir era un trabajo que requería todas las horas del día

For him we were as good as dead; each of us was carrying around his own death certificate, from which only the date was missing.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

Surviving one's own life, living on the other side of it like a spectator, is quite comfortable after all. You no longer expect anything, no longer fear anything, and every hour is like a memory.

By her eyes she clung to the world, as by her nails she clung to the sheet, so that she might not be engulfed. 'Live! Live!

One of the most remarkable features to be noted as we survey the scale of animal life is that as we go up, individuality is seen to be more and more fully developed. At the bottom, life is concerned only in the survival of the species as a whole; at the top, life seeks expression through particular individuals, while accomplishing also the survival of the group.

Lynching is an absolute evil; it represents the survival of an obsolete civilization, the perpetuation of a struggle of races which has to disappear;

What should he do? It is simple. If he can escape from the grip of the people who wield the whip, he must run away. If he could have evaded his tormentors in the first place, he should have.

A man whose whole family died under torture, and who had himself been tortured for a long time in a concentration camp. Or a 16th century Indian, the sole survivor after the total extermination of his people. Such men if they had previously believed in God would either believe it no more, or else they would conceive of it quite differently than before.

La science, aujourd'hui, cherchera une source d'inspiration au-dessus d'elle ou périra

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to stop and speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.