Quotes About Survival

Second Lieutenant Yasuo Ko'o, devised a morbid system that estimated a man's life expectancy by his ability to stand or sit. If a man could stand, he might live thirty days; if he could sit up, three weeks; if he could only lie down, one week. If he urinated lying down, he had three days to live; if he stopped speaking, two days; and if he stopped blinking, just one day.18

Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know that others can survive, as they did.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.

I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, it's foolproof.

What the hell was it that people loved so much about the great outdoors? It was just one fatal accident after another waiting to happen.

I couldn't do this on my own. And like D.H. Lawrence said, We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Kingdoms rose and fell but life went on.

This is what Liza knows: People go under. They fall off the world, they go beneath and drown and die. Sometimes nothing saves you. But fuck it, she's still here. She is a living thing, with twelve pins now pressed into the tree-house oak in the backyard and a thirteenth coming

The wold was full of us, the leftovers and the leavers, the bereaved and the broken.

If in large part we were concerned only with making it through another day without getting laid off, there was a smaller part just hoping to leave for the night without contributing to someone's lifetime of hurt.

Things Could Be Worse And Things Could Be So Much Better—that became the game, my running commentary on the streets of Manhattan, and I played it as well as the other slobs just trying to get by.

All over America, in fact, people were up and out of their beds today in a continuing effort to polish turds. Sure, for the sake of survival, but more immediately for the sake of some sadistic manager or shit-brained client whose small imagination and numbingly dumb ideas were bleaching the world of all relevancy and hope.

Technology would never advance past primal fear. It would never trump human instinct.

In the most heavily bombed part of the country—a high, strategically located plateau in the middle of Laos, called the Plain of Jars, the American bombing runs almost never paused. Of the roughly 150,000 people who lived on the Plain of Jars before the 1960s, only about 9,000 remained at the end of the decade.37 After the war, one-third of the bombs dropped on Laos remained in the ground and undetonated.

for what is a man in a storm like this?

You did what you had to do." He started,sure he had heard her wrong. "Oh,don't mistake me, I have no more liking for being staked out like a goat than would the next person. Still, it was a good plan, all things considered.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

There was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you are unfit to endure. And yet you endure there.

hThere was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you are unfit to endure. And yet you endure there.

I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.

She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.