Quotes About Survival

I saw the bombs, and, like a kid, I looked back at them. Instantly there was fire everywhere.

The kind of dystopian books that I've always loved the most are the ones where you find yourself in a world that's less scorched-earth and instead a world that has just been made different.

Kids would never care about going to school unless your mama and daddy instilled into your head and explained to you that you need this thing to live.

Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.

I've now spent almost a full year of the last two years of my life in London, and I still have to think really, really hard before I cross the street. There are too many instincts fighting each other, and I don't want to die.

If an institution has not made it after 10 years, it shouldn't be around anymore.

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

There have been a couple specific instances where I've felt like I couldn't survive without interacting with a certain person. I've been involved with some pretty manipulative people who have told me the same thought: that I can't live without them.

It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

I don't think X-23's past is the most interesting thing about her, but it's not like she can escape it, either.

'Castaway' is my favorite movie, and any time I read about a castaway or a story like that, it just interests me a lot.

Kat was breathing steadily now but Lock knew he would never forget the feeling of relief that had swept over him when he saw her draw that first, shallow gasp as they pushed the stretcher out of the shuttle. He still didn't know why she'd come back to them from the brink of death, only that he was desperate to keep her. "How

Slavery is back but never went away

Most taxi drivers won't bring folks to our street They say they could get shot or killed So I wonder what that makes me A person who is bulletproof or already dead

People ask me all the time how I survived. It wasn't that I was smarter or even stronger than anyone else. I didn't even know what I was doing. It was just that something inside me couldn't go along.

Boa parte dos taxistas não trazem gente pra nossa rua Falam que podem levar tiro ou acabar morrendo Aí fico pensando nesse caso o que é que eu sou Uma pessoa à prova de balas ou alguém que já morreu.

Precisamos que as pessoas tentem imaginar de verdade – de uma vez por todas – como é ter seu corpo invadido, sua mente despedaçada, sua alma estilhaçada.

Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

Não havia qualquer dúvida que, se ele me tivesse batido diretamente na roda, eu teria sido projetado para debaixo do carro e atropelado. Poderia muito bem ter morrido. Tínhamos passado pelas mais terríveis condições rodoviárias do mundo e acabáramos por ter o nosso primeiro acidente numa estrada canadiana…

There can be no coexistence with monsters'" Glenn said, "be they Nazis or Nosferatu. Excuse me." He

Hunger precipitated despair.

Now listen...You are young and you don't know many things, but do remember this: you are alone in this earth. Alone. You must act for yourself and no other. Kindness is not appreciated anymore, nor friendship. Think of yourself before you think of others. It's a cruel world and you have to be hard and cruel, too. They will strangle you if you don't strangle them first. Trust no one but your judgment--and even then, don't trust too much.

Who then lives? Who then triumphs when all others have succumbed?