Quotes About Survival

Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species.

I love seeing guys on the worst possible day and watching them scramble.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.

He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.

Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.Sonea: I love you too.

That's it...I'm completely giving up on boys and concentrating on staying alive.

Every living thing requires love to survive for without it, we die.

Oh yes. Sometimes love hurts. But the lack of love kills.

She's fire...but she will not burn you. She knows all too well how it feels to live with ashes.

Pain reminds us that we are alive and breathing, that we still have the strength within to fight

Lucifer wasn't sure what to say. He'd survived six thousand years in Hell, but the past sixty without her were the most torturous of his existence.

Self-preservation is an enemy of love.

Trust yourself. You've survived a lot and you will survive whatever is coming.

That combination of forces—the over-lord, the white woman, and the black man—would have cost some—probably all of them—their lives in the Southern States of America.

when the struggle for existence was so savage that no vitality which was not founded in a gigantic form could have even a possibility of survival.

She pictured herself running from a hoard of ravenous zombies on a hot day eventually collapsing from heatstroke and getting devoured. Then she imagined Hal giving a rousing eulogy at her funeral explaining how Kendra's death was a beautiful sacrifice allowing the noble zombies to live on delighting future generations by mindlessly trying to eat them. With her luck it could totally happen.

You said you wanted my story? Well, I was swallowed by a hippopotamus. Except I didn't go into the hippo, I ended up in a tree. Then I sort of wandered here.

Considering the circumstances, Rollan figured being alive was the same thing as being okay.

Look, my terrible childhood is all I've got! Don't you dare try to top it.

Fun to think about," Cole said, straining to sound brave. "You get used to it," Jace said. "If you live long enough." "You should become a motivational speaker." Jace grinned.

Being butchered by monkeys is pretty low on my list of ways to go.

One of the team members perished, and a second was badly injured." "Sounds like an ideal situation for involving a fourteen-year-old girl