Quotes About Survival

I wanted to go to him then? Not all of me but the same part he'd just hurt. I don't understand this pull, still. I think it must be a really dangerous physics, the gravity of wound to fist. You can see it happen to the other animals. When a hunter or trapper begins kicking at an alligator, its body curls to accommodate the withdrawing foot.

THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU!

Water is the most essential element of life, because without water, you can´t make coffee.

Water is the most essential element in life, because without it you can't make coffee.

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

Rainbows always gave her hope—hope that something beautiful waited for those strong enough to survive the storm.

Surrounding yourself with a lot of desert is a bit like sitting in quicksand: Sooner or later the water will find you and suck you under.

Survival is like a stone wall, and kindness is a door.

Actually, they're really just ordinary plants. But they've learned to survive unordinary events, which makes them like the strongest plants in the world. That's pretty cool.

that would be a lot like planting a rose in the desert; you'd survive but you'd never really bloom.

Life is like that, I suppose: always slapping you in the face when you least expect it.

spädbarnet och stenåldersvilden lever kanske inte bara kvar i somliga, tänkte jag, utan i oss alla, fast mer eller mindre, det är en väsentlig skillnad (s. 60).

Society has made it so I have to get paid in order to do basic things like eat and be indoors and not be naked. Once that's happened, morality's bound to get slippery.

What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive.

Many people must have told you that you are lucky to be alive. I think you would have been lucky had you not been shot in the first place.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

But as we ascend to animals of high types, having faculties more efficient and more numerous, we begin to find that time and strength are not wholly absorbed in providing for immediate needs.

Metaphysical guilt is the lack of absolute solidarity with the human being as such--an indelible claim beyond morally meaningful duty. This solidarity is violated by my presence at a wrong or a crime. It is not enough that I cautiously risk my life to prevent it; if it happens, and I was there, and if I survive where the other is killed, I know from a voice within myself: I am guilty of being still alive.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

The 140 children at the Cuando mission represent a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of Angolan kids who have no one to look after them. Most wander aimlessly around the countryside or live by their wits on the streets of Luanda and other major cities, begging for money, washing or even just watching cars. In what should be one of Africa's richest countries, guarding vehicles has become a major form of employment.

There were 675 people in his village, he says, but one-tenth of them have perished in the past three months. 'It began in November and the children were the first to begin dying.' We are eating some leaves, but the people don't have the strength to look for food any more.

Der Frosch, der am lautesten quakt, wird zu allererst vom Storch gefressen.