Quotes About Survival

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

My favorite part of 'Jessica Jones' is... all of it.

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.

When I read the scene where I'm actually chainsawing my way out of the belly of a shark, how could a guy turn that down when that's in the job description?

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

I've been joking that 'On the Road' is the prequel to 'The Road.' I don't know if that's a very good joke.

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

We don't know what we'd do. Nobody knows what accident of fate or DNA or character will determine how we act when the shit hits the fan.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

It Is The Wisdom Of Crocodiles, That Shed Tears When They Would Devour

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

Most human beings, in other words, would rather fight than starve.19

The opinion that the survival of Islam itself depended on the use of military slavery was shared by the great Arab historian and philosopher Ibn Khaldun, who lived in North Africa in the fourteenth century, contemporaneously with the Mamluk sultanate in Egypt.

Four men are missing R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

Literature is the fragment of fragments', wrote Goethe in Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering, the great sad novel of his old age: 'the least part of all that ever happened and was spoken was written down, and of what was written only the least part has survived . . .'.

For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.

Most of life is unbearable. It's unbearable but we bear it

Rejection was arbitrary. Rejection was survivable.