Quotes About Survival

So what if I don't learn algebra?' 'Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens.' 'That's never going to happen,' Jon said. 'And even if schools do open up somewhere, they're not going to open up here. There aren't enough people left.' 'We don't know how many people are like us, holed up, making do until times get better.' 'I bet whoever they are, they aren't studying algebra,' Jon said.

But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.

Maybe we lost the things we loved then so we could survive losing every thing else.

When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.

My existence is the only gift I have left to give, but it will have to do.

The idiot's still alive!" Mom cried. "And he's still an idiot!

Survivors have responsibilities.

guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

Life may not continue the way we know it today, but it will continue. Life endures.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open. Mom

In the end, I felt hope. I realized that my soul was not permanently scarred after all. I was still a human being. —Karl Schnibbe

The dolphins' evolutionary path is itself a preposterous feat: their predecessors were land mammals that resembled small, hooved wolves.

I have a message for president snow, you can bomb us but if we burn, you burn with us!

with one sweep of my arm, I push her behind me. ' I volunteer!' I gasp ' I volunteer as tribute

And may the odds be ever in your favor

When a girl is sexually abused, layers of secrecy and shame are added to her self-blame. The incestuous aggressor always projects the guilt for his crime onto the child he is molesting. The girl then learns to see herself as dirty and worthless. Having accepted humiliation, and exploitation as the conditions of survival during childhood, the girl is likely to reenact that same abuser/victim relationship with men in her adult life.

She was battered incessantly, regularly, all the time. I'm not saying 24 hours a day, but the incidents of battering were extraordinarily high.

Fear in intimate relationships operates on several levels. On one level there are the survival fears—fear of making it financially on your own, fear of being poor, fear of being the sole provider and nurturer for your children, and fear of being alone—which keep women from leaving abusive relationships. But fear is present in the misogynistic relationship long before the woman begins to think of leaving.

Remember, accepting blame is a survival tool for abused children. They keep the myth of the good family alive by believing that they - not their parents - are bad. This belief lies at the core of virtually all self-defeating behavior patterns in adults who were abused as children.

When we're very young, our godlike parents are everything to us. Without them, we would be unloved, unprotected, unhoused, and unfed, living in a constant state of terror, knowing we were unable to survive alone.

The experts agree with them about the importance of the quality of the debulking: "there is absolutely nothing the doctor can influence, including choosing the type of chemotherapy, that affects a woman's chance of surviving her ovarian cancer as much as the quality of her initial surgery . . . Sadly, however, only between 30 and 50 percent of the women with ovarian cancer in any given geographic region will have optimal surgery." I

I was forced to live through it all, every minute and then every day thereafter...

Nothing's for ever. Everything changes eventually, and it's the people who adapt who survive.