Quotes About Survival

A joy in living, a natural expression of the will to survive all personal disaster, can be constant despite whatever changes take place. Some fortunate people are born with it and others acquire it through learning and growth.

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

My brother has absolutely no sense of self-preservation or survival instinct," Eli said. "He has no idea we're out here. We could be silver-eating, flesh-regenerating, vampire zombies, and when we busted through the door to eat his brilliant brain, he'd look up and say, 'Huh?

Humans wore skin and clothes— many clothes instead of fur. Would have been smarter to grow fur, but humans were never smart.

You hurt her and I'll skin you alive and feed your carcass to the wild boars in the swamps. You copy?

These words are all I have so I write them- I need them just to get by.

Matrimony and the toothache may be survived, but of all the evils femininity is heir to, defend me from a shopping excursion.

On the way we encountered many other people: families on the move, women wearily limping along behind their men, carrying bundles on their heads and babies strapped on their backs, their children tottering alongside, dragging behind them bags and baskets overflowing with artefacts of their dislocated lives. [256]

It didn't matter which side you were on. It was an empty, cavernous world in which young boys groped around in the dark, dreading the next step, which might be on a landmine or into a booby trap. It was a world of death. No one came out of it unscathed. It was a world with only one law: kill or be killed. [204]

And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.

I wonder now… were my tears for Alex and Al and all the others who had gone and who were yet to go? Or was I weeping for myself…and those who would remain?

the most blood thirsty animals in the Artic are not wolves, but the insatiable mosquitoes.

But if the wolves are too numerous, or food is scarce, the number of pups in a litter may fall to as few as one or two.

Y sin embargo la esperanza me persigue, me ronda, me muerde; como un lobo moribundo que apretara sus dientes por última vez.

Didn't they say sharks had to keep moving or they'd drown?

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

One day, when Djibi's raised her little head to drink by herself, the battle against death was won.

Time is one of the few things man cannot influence. We all have a desire to create something that will show we were here. That we did something of value. Of course, timeless design is wasted if it cannot survive.

Mam wra?enie, ?e jeste?my ostatnimi lud?mi na Ziemi. - To nie by?oby takie z?e. Mieliby?my dla siebie ca?e wino ?wiata.

The sun will come up tomorrow, and that same sun will set later in the day. Life goes on." "So does that mean you're okay going it alone?

They died, but you must live. To honor their memory, you must live.

Surviving felt like its own punishment. What had I done to deserve this? How could I live if my parents weren't somewhere in this world?

chamão de gregoge, que foi, serrarem-os vivos pelos. pés, e pelas mãos, e pelos pescoços, e por derradeiro pelos peitos até o fio do lombo, como os eu vi depois a todos.

Le Tiers-Monde est le nom par lequel nous appelons, par pudeur, cet enfer, ou ce purgatoire des hommes vivants.