Quotes About Survival

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong.

My responsibility in the past, when I was sleeping outside every night, was just to survive. My responsibility now is to stay real, stay grounded, and just tell the truth.

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." "That's a lie." "No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Whatever the truth is, I don't see how it will help me get food on the table.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.

Survival is a passive way of saying "my needs are greater than yours.

Life depends on, how much you're alive

The planet is finished with us, at this point -

You get up each morning and do what you can to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters.

We get up in the morning and do what we must to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters.

Keeping secrets is a survival tactic.

Sometimes the worst beatings we endure are never the physical kind.

The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens.

Truth never dies but lives a wretched life.