Quotes About Survival

Adam laughed. "Son, in time you'll understand that every man has to have a girly conversation with his woman whether he wants to or not. His survival depends on his willingness to accept it with good grace.

How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later?

I don't understand camping. It's organized inconvenience.) "If

I think at the end of the world a sense of humor would be important.

Was it hard to watch people go? No. Breathing afterward, every day, was harder.

It took her longer to find out that Oscar Sierra was absorbing every scrap of information from his environment, then running it through some mental algorithm that helped him figure out how to survive in hostile, unloving territory.

Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

Yeah, in Zombie everything starts with a Z," said Webster.

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took him in the chest as I drove the sword upward with the strength of my legs. Even rusted, the sword slid through him, and I found, for the first time, how easy it is to kill a man.

I woke to find I had not been murdered in my sleep.

The Bird Wars

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us…. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. —Albert Einstein

I live because I have to. You will hurt, you will bleed, you will be betrayed as I have been betrayed. You will survive. And you must learn to control your power.

I don't know. I live day to day, waiting for the next terrible thing to happen.

they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

Many codependents are barely surviving, and most aren't getting their needs met.

described codependency as "a set of maladaptive, compulsive behaviors learned by family members to survive in a family experiencing great emotional pain and stress … Behaviors … passed on from generation to generation whether alcoholism is present or not.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

El sueño alimenta cuando no se tiene qué comer.

from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.