Quotes About Survival

Sure. Life is full of ups and downs, but we all know that some downs are worse than others. There are those from which we simply cannot recover. Or at least it might seem that way when we're in the depths of the worst possible scenario.

We certainly did. We just wanted to survive. That's all. Your house could be bombed, and you could lose everything you owned in a matter of seconds, but it wouldn't matter if you still had the people you loved. If they survived, that was all the riches you could ever ask for. So, don't let the size of that ring sway you. Think about what kind of a man he is. Is he decent and honorable? Would he die for you or help another person before he helped himself?

Sometimes, bad things happened. All any of us can ever do is find a way to survive, and accept the things that cannot be changed.

Do not abandon ship: Some countries of the world are like people fighting on a large boat. In the middle of their battle over who should catch the biggest fish, they look up and realize that the fine boat is sinking, and everyone is going down. Their next fight will be for basic survival, and they will need to rely on one another, floating far from shore in the vast sea.

How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.

A hefty, hooked beak and scary stare can be fierce features! The shoebill...is one mean feeder. It eats almost anything in the swamp.

He could see the inchworm in his mind even now, that snip of green elastic with it's tiny blunt legs, coiling and stretching its way toward the tabletop, on a mission whose nature was a mystery. Survival, he understood now - that was all. That contracting and straining, that frantic rearing-up to look around: It was nothing less than the urgent business of staying alive.

Everything, you understand, will threaten the baby's life forever. Somehow you have to survive this.

A Japanese can live on a teaspoonful of rice a day. We were the best breed of worker they had ever hired in their lives.

We didn't know. We didn't want to know. We never asked. All we wanted to do, now that we were back in the world, was forget.

Baby leaving you is easier than being gone I don't know what I'll do if one more thing goes wrong

It has become somewhat trite, nowadays, to say that after so many years of destruction it is a kind of miracle that Paris is still standing, a miracle we thrill to every day. But if the beauty of Paris has survived wars, how extraordinary that it can do nothing against the pickaxes of the Parisians themselves when they make up their minds to demolish something, nor against the vagaries of their architects left to their own devices!

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself.

Me ha alegrado saber que por lo menos tienen una lata de nescafé. Siempre que una persona tiene una lata de nescafé me doy cuenta de que no está en la última miseria; todavía puede resistir un poco.

Siempre que una persona tiene una lata de nescafé me doy cuenta de que no está en la última miseria; todavía puede resistir un poco.

Siempre que una persona tiene una lata de Nescafé me doy cuenta de que no está en las últimas; todavía puede resistir un poco.

La esperanza le pertenece a la vida, es la vida misma defendiéndose

Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive. Vomiting bunnies wasn't so terrible once one had gotten into the unvarying cycle, into the method. You will want to know why all this work, why

Probablemente la única áncora de salvación sea la ciencia, el uranio 235, esas cosas. Pero además hay que vivir.

hubiera querido poder estar también dentro del hormiguero para ver cómo las hormigas tiraban del gusano metiéndole las pinzas en los ojos y en la boca y tirando con todas sus fuerzas hasta meterlo del todo, hasta llevárselo a las profundidades y matarlo y comérselo.

El tiempo es lo único que permanece y que nos sobrevivirá cuando ya no estemos.

Sure enough, we have plenty of exposure to white everything so why would we opt to remain our African/Asian/Mexican selves? The answer is that suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: There is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you--who you really are--do survive.

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer--the books allowed me to withstand. They sustained me. I read still, prolifically, with great passion, but never like I read in those days: in those days it was life or death.