Quotes About Survival

If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers.

Evolution left us with another burden: our cognitive, emotional, and moral faculties are adapted to individual survival and reproduction in an archaic environment, not to universal thriving in a modern one.

Norberg, drawing on Braudel, offers vignettes of this era of misery, when the definition of poverty was simple: "if you could afford to buy bread to survive another day, you were not poor.

Natural selection consists of competition among genes to be represented in the next generation, and the organisms we see today are descendants of those that edged out their rivals in contests for mates, food, and dominance.

The likelihood that, in attacking a member of your own species, you will get hurt is a powerful selection pressure that disfavors indiscriminate pouncing or lashing out.

Poverty, too, needs no explanation. In a world governed by entropy and evolution, it is the default state of humankind.

El Dios de la Biblia hebrea, siempre misericordioso, dijo a la primera mujer: -Tantas haré tus fatigas cuantos sean tus embarazos: con dolor parirás los hijos-. Hasta hace poco tiempo, en torno a 1% de las madres morían en el parto; para una mujer estadounidense, estar embarazada hace un siglo era casi tan peligroso como tener cáncer de mama en la actualidad.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn't-eat.

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.

Shh," he whispered. "You asked me if I loved you. I do. I love you more than life itself. Nothing matters in this world but that you live. Can you do that for me? Can you live?

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

Love is the only engine of survival

The purpose of life is life.

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

Love yourself before any other person. That's when you can really survive on your own.

Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum