Quotes About Survival

And that almost killed you? It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.

It was life, you were stuck with it, and all you could do was live it.

Pride was the belt you could use to hold up your pants even after your pants were gone

Very well. I am now a man with now food, with two less fingers and one less toe than I was born with; I am a gunslinger with shells which may not fire; I am sickening from a monster's bite and have no medicine; I have a day's water if I'm lucky; I may be able to walk perhaps a dozen miles if I press myself to the last extremity. I am, in short, a man on the edge of everything.

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

I want to tell you something else, something I'm really starting to believe: I'm going to be okay. Not today, not tomorrow, and not next week, but eventually. As okay as we mortals are privileged to get, anyway. It's good to know that—good to know that survival is still an option, and that sometimes it even feels good. That sometimes it actually feels like victory.

two bitches livin on a little chunk of rock...

I'm back, Eddie! the asthma yelled gleefully. I'm back and oh, I dunno, this time I just might killya! Why not? Gotta do it sometime, you know! Can't fuck around with you forever! Eddie's chest surged and pulled. He groped for the aspirator, found it, pointed it down his throat, and pulled the trigger. Then he sat back in the tall Amtrak seat, shivering, waiting for relief, thinking of the dream from which he had just awakened.

They say half a loaf is better than none, Jimmy, but in a world of want, even a single slice is better than none.

Leave it at this: man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that get in his way.

There's little in life that's so disheartening as constant cold.

There is more to life than just surviving it. Inside each turbulence there is a calm -- a sliver of light buried in the darkness.

Life is like a prison. To survive it is through self-healing and absolute dignity.

Life in this village is like that of a louse hanging on to a wrinkle in a loincloth.

We cam leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it.

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

How can a man value any other thing than his own existence?

Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived.

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

Life.... It's better than the alternative.

One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate.

I've always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.

Survival isn't a race. It's a dance.