Quotes About Survival

Books, buckles, papers, and scarves. After Gleb's accident, she thought she would die. She thought she had. This date took him and pulled her down after, grief determined gravity. But now she would live. She had to. It was what she did: live while others could not. There was no pleasure in it.

I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.

It was a damned good thing men couldn't have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.

The slanted light of dawn was rippling through the windowpane, and Miss Anne Sainsbury was huddled beneath her thin blanket, wondering, as she often did, where she would find money for her next meal." That was really good. Even he wanted to know what happened to Miss Sainsbury, and he was making it up.

I am sure it is not worth such high drama. I do not profess to know or understand romantic love between husband and wife, but surely it is not so all-encompassing that the loss of one would destroy the other. You are stronger than you think, dear sister. You would survive quite handily without him, moot point though it may be.

amidst the horrors of war, it became apparent that there was no way he could possibly survive the carnage. And if by some stroke of fate he managed to come through the conflict with his body intact, he knew that his soul would not be so lucky.

don't think any of us knows how we will react to a crisis until we are forced into one.

When the alternative is despair, I generally prefer humor.

People living through armed conflicts need infrastructure and services which will last, and the last thing on their mind is which budget line applies.

This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

In my attempt to defend myself, I was badly injured on my left hand. I am shaken but fortunate to be alive.

I've had injuries in my life from things beyond my control: runaway horses, helicopters that decide to crash on mountaintops, boating accidents - things that were out of my hands.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

You don't want to be innocent in the world of 'Game of Thrones.'

I never thought I'd ever get stabbed in my life. The fact that it happened twice within, like, a two-month period is pretty insane.

Saroj Kumar is plagued with insecurity about how he can survive in the industry, what with new, better looking actors coming up, and experimental films taking over his once popular box-office success formulas.

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

If you don't have a doctor that inspires you, no matter what you have, you should find one that does. Because I feel like my doctor helped me stay alive.

Elie Wiesel and his book 'Night' have changed my life, shifting the way I see and treat people and inspiring me to fight injustices any way I am able.

I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.