Quotes About Survival

Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

The only object of liberty is life.

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.

I sometimes feel like life is just one big test to see how long we can survive.

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

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

It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

The factories, the jails, the drunken days and nights, the hospitals have weakened and shaken me like a mouse in the mouth of a hip-cat: life.- from an Aug. 1965 letter to Jim Roman "On Cats

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep

The flames of our memories keep us alive!

Simple survival is never as ordinary as it seems!

I wish I had lost an arm or a leg. It would have been much easier than losing a part of my heart, which lives on, but now beats to a different rhythm.

I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.

Don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

Whoever has experienced near-death, knows how gracious, it is to be alive.