Quotes About Survival

We lived in the Portland Avenue Stacks, a sprawling hive of discolored tin shoeboxes rusting on the shores of I-40, just west of Oklahoma City's decaying skyscraper core.

There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

Many of the gunters on the front lines took an involuntary step backward. A few others turned and ran for their lives.

If we don't end war, war will end us. —H. G. Wells

But these were real aliens we were fighting—sentient beings with highly advanced technology, intent on destroying us. And we were outnumbered thousands to one. We should've been dead a hundred times already. Were humans really just better at war than they were, or all this time, had the aliens been throwing the game?

She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month. Most of the time, I had to find food on my own.

It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. we've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty and disease are widespread.

Para mim, a escola tinha sido um exercício darwiniano. Um ataque diário de ridicularização, abuso e isolamento.

Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

AA 241:87—I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.

For me, school had been a Darwinian exercise. A daily gauntlet of ridicule, abuse, and isolation.

life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.

Also, it turns out that burning all of those fossil fuels had some nasty side effects, like raising the temperature of our planet and screwing up the environment. So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the weather is all messed up. Plants and animals are dying off in record numbers, and lots of people are starving and homeless. And we're still fighting wars with each other, mostly over the few resources we have left.

I could barely believe myself. IOI had actually tried to kill me. To prevent me from winning a videogame contest. It was insane.

I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

I never wanted to hurt nobody, all i wanted was the money to save my brothers life

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown.