Quotes About Survival

We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz

We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.

So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?

But we're alive, and together, and we're going to be all right.

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile.

I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.

A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting, and expertly told. A must-listen.

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.

I didn't say a word. He wouldn't be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

You think this is a walk in the park, that it's all beauty pageants and tea parties? Come on girl, wake up! This is survival at its most intense.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.

Many parts of a pine tree are edible.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.