Quotes About Survival

Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

Truth suffers, but never dies.

Now he was hungry, tired, and covered in boar's blood. He hated hunting his own food!

Time. She had to go home. As soon as the lunar eclipse occurred in three weeks. Because if she stayed here, she would die. Either from the bullet in her back, or from the pain that was slowly sinking talons into her.

People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.

I'm the top of the food chain and well...you're the food.

That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman's existence.

If I developed empathy, at first, it wasn't so much a way to find connection as a survival strategy. My parents gave me burdens in childhood that I honed into gifts.

We live today in the era not of the art of dying, but of the art of saving life

Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force

Nature will always win in the end, as it must if our species is to survive.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

The choice the pioneers faced was stark: succeed or starve.

We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution. How amazing and yet tragic it is, I thought, the human instinct for

We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution".

Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on--pigs' entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish--anything that didn't bite you first.

The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes--to me a beatitude--is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses to be forgotten by us, and that the worst poverty women--or men--can suffer is to be bereft of their past.

Losing your innocence has very little to do with virginity, you know. Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed. So different from one's nursery stories." She

Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

No matter how bad things get, you've got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Die Krebszellen waren Menschen in Kleinausgabe. Alles fressen, was ihnen in den Weg kommt, ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste, auch in Kauf nehmend, vor lauter Gier, dass irgendwann der Wirt nicht mehr ist.

a man the South African government evidently thought too dangerous to be free, but also by then too prominent to be killed.

They knew that they were there in the Bahamas because their forefathers had been captured and put on ships and transported to a different part of the world. They knew that those ancestors had a history and a culture, and they talked about that history and culture. Through oral history, they retained some of the fragments of who their great-great-grandfathers were, and probably even some surviving words of their language. They