Quotes About Survival

Well, it always gets better after it gets worse," Turcotte said. "Either that or you're dead.

But got to fight until only one side is standing. Otherwise

He puts natural predators at the table," Priebus said later. "Not just rivals—predators.

when you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls, things start getting nasty and bloody. That's what happens.

Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.

Le malheur n'est jamais pur, pas plus que le bonheur. Un mot permet d'organiser une autre manière de comprendre le mystère de ceux qui s'en sont sortis : la résilience, qui désigne la capacité à réussir, à vivre, à se développer en dépit d'adversité.

Personne ne prétend que la résilience est une recette de bonheur. C'est une stratégie de lutte contre le malheur qui permet d'arracher du plaisir à vivre, malgré le murmure des fantômes du fond de sa mémoire.

Il nous suffit d'être, pour être supérieurs.

Trudging on foot, loaded with sacks, bundles, and babies, young mothers who had lost their milk, driven out of their minds by the horrors of the journey, abandoned their children, shook the corn out of their sacks onto the ground, and turned back. A quick death, they had decided, was preferable to a slow death by starvation. Better to fall into the clutches of the enemy than to be torn to pieces by some beast in the forest.

Man is a wolf to man.

Just because you're not dead doesn't mean you're alive.

The myths we create about ourselves are solely there so our brains can survive.

Mount Weather, the self-contained city out in Maryland.

when you go down a dark alley and you feel that tingling across the back of your neck, that's not just a bad feeling, that's a biological gift from God - the Gift of Fear...when you ignore that gift - when you go down the dark alley and say, Y'know, I'm sure it'll be okay - that's when you find real pain.

The only people who might hope to survive were those who had exercised some degree of caution and had prepared in advance.

As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with.

of mankind—something he believed Mother Nature would eventually deliver in the form of widespread famine and disease.

less of mankind—something he believed Mother Nature would eventually deliver in the form of widespread famine and disease.

In Grossman's mind, there were just three categories of human beings—sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves.

Paranoia might be annoying, but a healthy dose of it served to keep you alive. No one ever got killed by being too vigilant.

Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him.

Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.

Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window.

She lived quite alone and whether the fault was hers or whether the fault was theirs I do not know. And a great deal of time went by and she did not speak to a living soul and a great wind of madness howled through her and overturned all her languages. And she forgot Italian, forgot English, forgot Latin, forgot Basque, forgot Welsh, forgot every thing in the world except Cat – and that, it is said, she spoke marvellously well.