Quotes About Survival

Tapi sekarang, setelah merasakan kesedihan, bagiku manusia kelihatan sebagai serigala yang ingin saling memakan sesamanya.

Aduh! Mengapa manusia harus selalu membual bahwa daya pikirnya jauh lebih tinggi daripada yang dimiliki binatang? Ini menyebabkan manusia terlalu banyak menuntut kebutuhan hidup.

My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized.

many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain, and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die, and leave my adversary in being.

Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive.

Prepare! your toils only begin: wrap yourself in furs, and provide food, for we shall

El lugar fue mi retiro, y descansé feliz de haber hallado un refugio, por miserable que fuese, para protegerme de la inclemencia de la estación, y aún más de la barbarie del hombre.

But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.

when she died!—nay, then I was not miserable. I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish to riot

Però la venjança m'ha mantingut viu: no gosava morir i deixar viu el meu adversari.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it

You have suffered a land-, I a sea-wreck.

Who laughs in front of a gun? Only those of our species.

You don't cross a mangrove. You'd spike yourself on the roots of the mangrove trees. You'd be sucked down and suffocated by the brackish mud.

A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive. --Gaara

every totalitarian regime forms a type of human being on whom it relies for its stability. The shaping of the New Man is the regime's explicit project, but its product is not so much a vessel for the regime's ideology as it is a person best equipped to survive in a given society. The regime, in turn, comes to depend on this newly shaped type of person for its continued survival.

They had had about enough time to get their bearings and blow up one train when they ran out of food supplies.

Everyone had their own turning point," he explained to me. "Mine was Beslan.

That's how I survived. Time and time again. That's my secret. I survived because I willed it to be. ... How did I survive apocalyptic fire? I simply refused to feel the flames.

A paradox: The things you don't need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.

MATT HARDY WILL NOT DIE

A story about survival and/or strength. Tales about near-death experiences and overcoming difficulties are very inspiring because they show human strength. Motivational stories emphasize human mortality and also reveal how a person can have incredible strength.  Use real-life experiences to highlight the fact that people can do anything they put their minds to.

If you were stranded on an island, what 3 things would you bring with you?

I don't have to," replies the philosopher. "I only have to outrun you.")