Quotes About Survival

I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I wasn't vigilant. I didn't eat. I didn't go out. I didn't want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul. Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life...well, gradually became livable again.

Sometimes, she told herself, life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated, possibly through sheer act of will. She stared out at the muddy blue of the endless sea, gulped in the air, lifted her chin, and decided that she could survive this. She could survive most things. It was nobody's right to be happy, after all.

Across Manhattan the sun glowed orange, the endless sea of glittering skyscrapers reflecting back a peach light, the centre of the world, going about its business. A million lives below me, a million heartbreaks big and small, tales of joy and loss and survival, a million little victories every day.

I couldn't think. I couldn't feel. I just existed—me,

Louisa Clark had become, although neither of us said it, our only chance of keeping him alive.

Doesn't matter how smart you are, how clever, how self-reliant—you can always be bettered by a stupid man with a gun. The

Across Manhattan the sun glowed orange, the endless sea of glittering skyscrapers reflecting back a peach light, the center of the world, going about its business. A million lives below me, a million heartbreaks big and small, tales of joy and loss and survival, a million little victories every day.

There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived.

Oh, my God, my darling, how did you survive this man? "I guess it's like the frog in boiling water, right?" Nisha says. "No marriage starts off bad. I guess by the time you realize how weird it's gotten you're up to your neck.

I thought of how in less than twelve months I had survived homelessness and joblessness in one of the toughest cities on earth.

A million lives below me, a million heartbreaks big and small, tales of joy and loss and survival, a million little victories every day.

But long-distance relationships rarely survive.' 'So we are in a relationship.' I started to protest and he smiled. 'I'm kidding. Some. Some don't survive. I'm guessing some do, though. I guess it depends how much both sides want to try.

that no journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived.

Podría sobrevivir. Además, yo sabía, más que nadie, que peores cosas podrían suceder.

If you didn't think about it, your breath just traveled in and out of your body regardless. Didn't matter what you did, running, riding, sleeping, it just went in and out, doing its job, keeping you alive. As soon as you thought too hard about it, it became a passive thing. Waiting for you to fill your lungs. Stalling when you thought bad thoughts, when you felt your stomach tighten with fear.

that no journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived. I

It was something, he was sure, he would be capable of tearing flesh from bone to defend.

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

Afri?ka Velika jezera jesu Auschwitz današnjega vremena, no i na njima su se tako?er pojavljivali primjeri nevjerojatne ?ovje?nosti.

The natural state of mankind is grinding poverty punctuated by horrific violence terminating with an early death.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

It's very hard not to commit cancer suicide in America.

What does running from a bear have to do with social anxiety? Everything.

Instead of attention being directed to people and what war would do to their lives, it was turned to the abstraction of the nation. The survival of the nation in the evolutionary struggle, the refusal to accept an insult to the nation, the avoidance of the nation being humiliated or dishonoured, seemed of supreme importance. Nations as imaginary people were put before the real people who made them up.