Quotes About Survival

Ich war durch meine fürchterliche Situation gezwungen, diese Spaltung in ein Ich Schwarz und ein Ich Weiß zumindest zu versuchen, um nicht erdrückt zu werden von dem grauenhaften Nichts um mich.

Piovi pure, cielo nero, grandina, e tu, vento, soffiaci contro. Noi abbiamo sempre mangiato pane e tempesta. E terremo duro.

Ci sono fiori che crescono anche sotto la neve, nelle crepe delle rovine, nelle grotte e nei deserti, e dove nessun uomo li vedrà mai.

An interesting survival of mediaeval superstition," commented Flora.

The rat, which transported bubonic plague, and the louse, which carried typhus, were despised but accepted presences in almost every human society, although the latter could travel places (such as the Arctic) where even the rat couldn't survive.

factory had at its disposal 30,000 Jews, political prisoners

You will survive because you have to. Period.

Good. Now you don't look dead." Always a plus. "Say cheese, Coma Girl."

But the biggest single obstacle to making personal happiness the foremost goal of marriage was that women needed to marry in order to survive.

We are becoming like the mound of earth that rises from the waters of the Moonshell. All around us the white men swirl, taking more and more of the small mound of earth on which we live." Shots

Just her luck to be abducted by kidnappers who could think.

It's the worst thing that could ever happen to a woman, and they know that. It's why it's their best weapon. But after months of healing physically, I'm going to accept that I'll never be the same. That's all right. I'm still strong. I'm just different. And to change is to live. To survive.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

To tell you the honest-to-God truth: without Scientology, I would be dead. So, I can personally highly recommend it.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.

A feeling can't kill you.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.