Quotes About Survival

Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.

We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

Yazidis are facing the worst genocide of our times. They have been reduced from 23 million to 1 million.

For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania

Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate.

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.

Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.

I'm going to beat it, ...it's hard...but I plan on being around for a long time to come.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225

Sometimes chaos is a little easier to handle than the regular moments because your body just takes over. No time to think. Just do.

A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive after a time because they've been sick too.

You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.

Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse and anybody could die at any time.

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be takena matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.

It's not the good that die young, it's the lucky.