Quotes About Survival

He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! [...] Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is – Stanley Kowalski – survivor of the stone age! Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle!

I'm still in there fighting—for me! For life! For life is me!

Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you've got to keep on going.

Sabes cuál es la mayor victoria de una gata sobre un tejado de zinc caliente? Resistir en él todo el tiempo que le sea posible, hasta el último segundo.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.

Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you've got to keep going.

I'll eat you to live: that's poetry.

Darlene died doing what she loved, which was trying to stay alive.

No one said anything. The midday heat beat down on them, baking their bodies within the oven of clothes long since gone stiff with sweat and dirt, their minds as tired as their expectations. Hawk couldn't remember his last real bath. None of them had done more than wash off a little dirt and cool down their faces at the end of each day's trek since they had set out. Before that, things hadn't been much better. Food was growing scarce, too. Time was as thin as hope.

Survive! The word ratcheted through him, an echo that would not be stilled. Endure!

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

to realize it leads directly to extinction. Sooner or later nature will have no more to give them.

Humans have blinded themselves to the reality of what they are doing. When you closely examine the path they have taken, you come to realize it leads directly to extinction.

Power radiated from the specter, power born of experience gained, skill acquired, battles survived, and enemies overcome. Power born of years of staying alive while others died.

Surviving it provided validation of who and what they were, of their ability to confront and defeat the death that was constantly stalking them.

Evolution is a competitive game in which victory comes not from achieving some fixed number of points but by simply outscoring the opposition

We are built to pursue happiness as a tool to replicate our genes.

Capitalism, too, ws forged in blood and tears; it is just that it has survived long enough to forget about much of this horror.

Without the Ermen & Engels mill in Salford, owned by Friedrich Engels's textile-manufacturing father, the chronically impoverished Marx might well have not survived to pen polemics against textile manufacturers. Something

If we do not act now, it seems that capitalism will be the death of us.

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to it.

Wishing gets people killed," he often said. "Using your head gets you home.