Quotes About Survival

Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal.

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

Broadchurch' is shot through with the fear of being a parent: what's the most horrific loss you can imagine and how could you go on living afterwards?

The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.

I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.

When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.

I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

Being cold is not debilitating. We learned that from the Eskimos. They could be cold, and they could function. And you could function better when you're cold than when you're hot. I mean, hot, you become overheated, and, you know, you lose energy. If you're cold, you could function being cold. Now, frozen is different.

There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.

I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.

For cats, a hound is a natural enemy. This is the order of things.

I've always been with God, even in my darkest hour. That is why I say I am alive. I mean, I should have died a number of times.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

I had such a crazy life. How I got away with it, I don't know.

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

When you hear that howl alone at night in the forest, it's one of the most frightening sounds you'll ever hear.

A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.