Quotes About Survival

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

I'd love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.

Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

He wakes up and thinks, I'm alive. This simple fact fills him with a sense of accomplishment. He didn't die in his sleep.

And the violence of the coupling itself, primitive and elemental, reminding us that we're all just dumb animals clinging to our spot on the food chain, eating, sleeping, and fucking as much as possible before something bigger comes along and devours us.

Wild game (venison, caribou):

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.

The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.

In my kingdom," as the Red Queen tells Alice in Wonderland, "you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place." No one standing still can triumph, no matter how well constituted.

Put the things you can control in order. Repair what is in disorder, and make what is already good better. It is possible that you can manage, if you are careful. People are very tough. People can survive through much pain and loss. But to persevere they must see the good in Being. If they lose that, that are truly lost.

We (the sovereign we, the we that has been around since the beginning of life) have lived in a dominance hierarchy for a long, long time. We were struggling for position before we had skin, or hands, or lungs, or bones. There is little more natural than culture. Dominance hierarchies are older than trees.

one bird, usually the largest, will eventually win—but even the victor may be hurt by the fight. That means a third bird, an undamaged, canny bystander, can move in, opportunistically, and defeat the now-crippled victor. That is not at all a good deal for the first two birds

If Mother Nature wasn't so hell-bent on our destruction, it would be easier for us to exist in simple harmony with her dictates.

What if there are hundreds of lobsters, all trying to make a living and raise a family, in the same crowded patch of sand and refuse? Other creatures have this problem, too. When songbirds come north in the spring, for example, they engage in ferocious territorial disputes. The songs they sing, so peaceful and beautiful to human ears, are siren calls and cries of domination. A brilliantly musical bird is a small warrior proclaiming his sovereignty.

When we look at the world, we perceive only what is enough for our plans and actions to work and for us to get by.

A defeated wolf, for example, will roll over on its back, exposing its throat to the victor, who will not then deign to tear it out.

Nuestros duramente conseguidos métodos adaptativos luchan por dominar, a menudo de forma violenta, en un individuo dado, entre individuos dentro de sociedades, y entre sociedades. Por tanto, se suscita el problema de la organización.