Quotes About Survival

His people had hogs there till the bottom fell out of hogs. The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see. So it was with the world, restless, kind of brutal. Always going on. Not waiting for no man.

When they came into their trench he felt small enough. The biggest thing there was the roaring of Death and the smallest thing was a man. Bombs not so far off distressed the earth of Belgium, disgorged great heaps of it, and did everything except kill him immediately, as he half expected them to do.

book I still possess in all the flotsam and ruckus of my life

Hunger takes away what you are. Everything we were was just nothing then.

This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets of passage were rescinded and the bailiffs of God took back the papers of their soles.

You have got to remember how dangerous the world is and that here is a mighty patch of danger and you have got to live through it.

Trouble always comes and no use wishing it didn't. Thing is, to get through it – and out the other side. If there is another side.

In my exultation I forget I ain't got a bean of money but it don't concern me and I know I can rely on the kindness of folk along the way. The ones that don't try to rob me will feed me. That how it is in America.

I know I can rely on the kindness of folk along the way. The ones that don't try to rob me will feed me. That how it is in America.

How difficult it is to live.

What the deer feels in the second she sees the hunter with his gun I seemed to feel for long stretches of hours and days. I was poised for flight like any creature might be but where I was to flee I didn't know.

with ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying

Something had been buried that was not yet dead.

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".

She drinks her Eva water. Their parents were taken down by cancer, heart attacks and strokes. Respectable diseases.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

I se parea ca i se garuase creierul, scurgandu-i-se substan?a. Amintirile demult ascunse în str?funduri ?â?neau la suprafa?? ca ?obolanii care fug de pe o corabie care naufragiaz? ?i sar în valuri.

Maybe it was cold and miserable in the forest, but man can bring his own warmth and comfort anywhere he goes.

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder! That's what you have to fight for. For people. Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.

Siempre sentí que me sobraba una mano; por algo el Mono nos hizo dobles, nos proveyó de «repuestos», por decirlo de alguna manera. No sería muy atractivo, pero podríamos vivir perfectamente con un solo brazo, una sola pierna, un solo ojo, un solo riñón, un solo pulmón, un solo huevo (incluso sin ninguno), un solo oído y un solo corazón.