Quotes About Survival

Without peanut butter, I might starve.

I assume you're a refugee from the dance inside." "I escaped the enemy, captain," I said. I could see the side of his, and his smile. "Ah," he said. "At long last, a promotion.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

She figured out that the only way to keep from being frozen was to stay in motion, and long ago converted most of her flesh into liquid. Now when she smells danger, she spills herself all over, like gasoline, and lights it.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Retten will man eigentlich immer nur sich selbst. Was variiert, ist das Wovor.

Die Natur ist pragmatisch. Jedes Tier ist pragmatisch. Der Mensch ist es dort, wo ihm die Ideen ausgegangen sind.

Im Wald gab es Töten ohne Hass, Fortpflanzung ohne Liebe, Kooperation ohne Gesetze, Ernährung ohne Wissenschaft und Lebensfreude ohne Philosophie.

Ein Tier muss an nichts glauben außer an den unsinnigen Sinn des Überlebens. Allein, der pragmatische Mensch unterscheidet sich vom pragmatischen Tier in einer bedeutenden Einzelheit. Sein Spieltrieb erlischt nicht mit dem Eintritt der Geschlechtsreife. Sein Spieltrieb lebt ewig.

Die einzige Chance zum Vermeiden eines unvermeidlichen Endes besteht in der Hoffnung.

Wenn er jetzt einen Herzanfall bekam, hatte Kron erreicht, was er wollte; also würde er keinen Herzanfall bekommen. Kron keinen Gefallen zu tun war ein guter Grund, am Leben zu bleiben.

Self-esteem wasn't the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal.

If you're the only person left, as long as your hope is committed in action, then hope is alive in the world.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

I'd never invested a lot of effort into my dreams. When daily survival took everything I had, flexibility was more practical than hope.

Let's draw straws to see who gets eaten.

The work of art that insures the rebirth of its author and its reader or viewer is one that succeeds in integrating the artificial language it puts forward (ne style, new composition, surprising imagination) and the unnamed agitations [Émois] of an omnipotent self that ordinary social and linguistic usage always leave somewhat orphaned or plunged into mourning. Hence such a fiction, if it isn't an antidepressant, is at least, a survival, a resurrection.

Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible?

Hay momentos en la vida es los que la única manera de salvarse a uno mismo es muriendo o matando

Hay momentos en la vida en los que la única manera de salvarse a uno mismo es muriendo o matando.» Aquella frase de Mohamed Ziad

que tenía delante. Tropezó y… cayó delante de un tanque que pasó por encima de ella.

La guerra nos hace egoístas, sólo ansiamos seguir viviendo un día más —respondió él.

El terror anula a los seres humanos, y para poder sobrevivir saca los peores instintos.

hay momentos en la vida en los que la única manera de salvarse a uno mismo es muriendo o matando