Quotes About Survival

I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.

Being an Israeli is to know that you have risen from the ashes of those who were killed and knowing you have a responsibility for the coming generations.

But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

I don't care if the record labels survive. The music will survive anyhow.

The outdoors is one of the safest places you can be--provided that you've got a little bit of know-how and a lot of common sense.

My name is Cassie Palmer and I've cheated death more times than anyone has a right to expect. In the last two months, I've been shot, stabbed, beaten and blown up a few dozen times, and that doesn't count all the magical ways I've almost been killed. I'd have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me. I'd have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn't pushed me first.

He's a war mage. They're almost impossible to kill." He scowled. "Even on purpose.

I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon

Halfway through, I decided that if I survived this, I was going to kill him. It wouldn't be easy, him being a master vamp and all, but I would find a way.

Why has Emrys not killed you? Why has everyone not killed you?" "They've tried." "Not hard enough!

I wasn't usually the screaming type; I'd trained myself out of it years ago, because it doesn't up your chances of survival if you broadcast to the enemy both the fact that you're wounded and exactly where you are.

He'd faced death many times. But not like this. Not butchered like an animal, and sold like a piece of flesh in the market.

I was alive, they were not. Go Me. (Touch the Dark)

Whatever is lost stays alive if we remember it.

Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.

Flee while there is still time and then stop to catch your last breath.

I can do this, I told myself. Somehow, I will survive and thrive.

I dinna think tis romantic when a man says he's willin' t' give his life fer the woman he loves. Give me instead a man who'd fight to keep us both alive and kickin'! There's naught rommantic about a dead man, beau or no.

No sense fretting over a fox among the lambs, when there's a wolf on the prowl. And this wolf is a savage one.

The old woman cocked her head on one side. 'You wouldn't let me starve.' 'Wouldn't I?' 'I could put a hex on you that you'd never undo,' the old woman raged. I could bring a cooked fish alive in your throat even as you swallow it to choke you to death. You still don't know the half of what I know, girl, and you never will. You don't have the skill or patience to master it. Haven't had to learn it to survive, not like me, and that's your trouble.

Death by fire. That was something they all knew about, even those who hadn't seen it, hand't smelt the stench that hangs round a town for days, hadn't heard the screams that echo night after night through your dreams; even those who had not witnessed a burning had heard tell of it and shuddered.

They'll try to kill you." "Good thing I'm hard to kill." Only one thing concerned me. "Will you?" "Never. I'm the one who will always watch over you. Always be there to fuck you back to your senses when you need it, the one who will never let you die.

There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims.

When I thought I'd killed him, I felt more alone than I've felt in a long time. Like I couldn't stand walking through this city knowing he wasn't in it. Like somehow, as long as he was out there somewhere, if I was ever really in trouble, I knew where I could go and while maybe he wouldn't do exactly what I wanted him to do, he'd keep me alive. He'd get me through whatever it was to live another day.