Quotes About Survival

But death, in the end, had not come. Bartimeaus had instead.

That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the last few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me. Djin, magicians, humans, it made no difference. I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke was joining in too. When all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him.

Did he do anything bad to you?" "Apart from knock me senseless, clap me in chains, and bring me to Milton Keynes? No.

Hobbes clearly proves that every creatureLives in a state of war by nature.

Blood will separate, if need be, but its call is primordial, and it won't be refused.

This is just your time, son, that's all. Your time to hurt and bleed and tear apart your notion of what makes you who you are. Life knocks us all on our ass at some point. And then we get back up, and we make some changes, because that's what men do. We adapt. And when we're done adapting, we're better equipped to survive.

We are a fine party of heroes. Half drowned, half frozen, half dead with tiredness and sick to our stomachs through drinking half the ocean. Not to mention that all our supplies are feeding the fish.

The way to get through normal life is to pretend it isn't getting to you. If you let on that you're hurt, the other animals will turn on you and tear you to pieces. Don't attract the attention of predators.

Everybody's damaged by something.

I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to fall down. "Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing." "Huh?" "Scaredybrave." "Scave." Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn't being funny.

Val prayed the remaining two weeks would fly past. The dangers of being picked off on patrol, or being overrun and killed by Boers in British uniforms, was infinitely preferable to the grimness of social availability in Pretoria

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

Aquela aterradora sessão fez com que perdesse a vontade de reencontrar os velhos amigos. Como fez bem, quinze anos antes, em deixar sua convivência! Como o detestam por tê-lo feito! Enquanto ele lutava pela sobrevivência no front ocidental, eles ficavam marinando em seu desconfortável conforto, protegidos pela placa de chumbo da amarga consciência de sua mediocridade.

Comprende una cosa esencial, y es que hay dos clases de personas: a las que puedes pegar y a las que no puedes, y que éstas no son las más fuertes o las mejor entrenadas, sino las que están dispuestas a matar. Éste es el único secreto, y el amable y pequeño Eduard decide pasarse al segundo bando: él será un hombre al que nadie pega porque se sabe que puede matar.

Il comprend une chose essentielle, c'est qu'il y a deux espèces de gens : ceux qu'on peut battre et ceux qu'on ne peut pas battre, et ceux qu'on ne peut pas battre, ce n'est pas qu'ils sont plus forts ou mieux entraînés, mais qu'ils sont prêts à tuer. C'est cela, le secret, le seul, et le gentil Edouard décide de passer dans le second camp : il sera un homme qu'on ne frappe pas parce qu'on sait qu'il peut tuer.

Pendant qu'il se battait pour sa survie sur le front de l'Ouest, ils sont restés à mariner dans leur inconfortable confort, protégés par la chape de plomb de l'amère conscience de leur médiocrité.

El universo no es "suicida", no permite que lo que vaya en contra del sentido superior de la vida, del mismo universo, sobreviva o prospere por mucho tiempo.

Inmortal realmente tiene que ser España para no haber sucumbido ya a tanto daño como le han hecho, al través de la Historia, los españoles

La vida está llena de sorpresas y de protozoos del paludismo.

The Jewish anomaly thus

On the eve of the Second World War, almost ten million Jews had lived in Europe; by the mid 1990s less than two million remained.3 After the war, Jewry practically ceased to exist in Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Germany and Austria, the countries that had been its main centres.

Enzo Traverso

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.