Quotes About Survival

Panic drowns thought," I told the zombie, "so it's time to stop panicking and start figuring out how to survive.

War against puerperal fever. Caesarean operations. Incubators for premature births. We take life more seriously than in earlier times.

No wonder Chelsea's memory had become her greatest weapon, a sword she wielded, wounding others to protect herself. For decades she had waged this war, but at what cost? Now she stood alone on the battlefield, bleeding and bruised. There were no victors in this war, and Chelsea counted herself among the casualties.

A person can live a day without silver or gold, but coffee? No thanks.

Wilderness begins with disconnections. It continues with deceit

In the end it's not the flashy and flamboyant who survive. It is those with steady hands and sober minds.

Sometimes your God-inspired gesture is exactly what a hurting soul needs to survive another day. DECEMBER 6 Don't become partners with those who reject God. How

So did yours. Joseph's pit came in the form of a cistern. Maybe yours came in the form of a diagnosis, a foster home, or a traumatic injury. Joseph was thrown in a hole and despised. And you? Thrown in an unemployment line and forgotten. Thrown into a divorce and abandoned, into a bed and abused. The pit. A kind of death, waterless and austere. Some people never recover. Life is reduced to one quest: get out and never be hurt again. Not simply done. Pits have no easy exits.

But the men—hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil—had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.

Adultery, perhaps only a mistake during good times, became a crime when the village needed food.

Life will do anything for a living.

The reasons for depression are not so interesting as the way one handles it, simply to stay alive.

It is not so much trying to keep alive As trying to keep from blowing apart From inner explosions every day.

For a long time, for years, I have carried in my mind the excruciating image of plants, bulbs, in a cellar, trying to grow without light, putting out white shoots that will inevitably wither.

For only the ill are well, Only the hunted, free

The value of solitude—one of its values—is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression. So sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands. The reasons for depression are not so interesting as the way one handles it, simply to stay alive.

What I am getting at is that in a place like this where we are deprived of so much already, the small things that delight the senses - food, a soft blanket, a percale sheet and pillow case, a bottle of lavender cologne, a linen handkerchief seem necessities if one is to survive.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.