Quotes About Survival

There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly

what characterizes the empirical method is its manner of exposing to falsification, in every conceivable way, the system to be tested. Its aim is not to save the lives of untenable systems but, on the contrary, to select the one which is by comparison the fittest, by exposing them all to the fiercest struggle for survival.

If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Lost their stomachs, sealed up their anuses and adopted the autotroph way

Least Convincing Denial over Eating One's Crew

That left Jeb to work for whatever the bosses offered under the National Right to Work Act--the minimum wage having been abolished--enough to keep them fed and the car gassed but not enough for a roof or to save much more than coins.

Therefore, dissociation and distraction function as survival skills that offer a sense of distance when we're overwhelmed by stimuli.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

You're beginning to make a habit of trying to drown yourself, Grace. I hope from now on you will try to restrain yourself.

The Hunger Games gets people invested in a contest. People are rooting for their favorites, rooting for their survival. And suddenly, unwittingly, the people being oppressed are actually engaged in this form of entertainment...The way you get control of people is to make them participate, not just subjugate them.

The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.

The pain of being unloved was pushed off to a distance where it could not touch. I became like those flat shining beetles that live in the heart of a rotten log, a creature of no dimension, able to disappear into the narrowest of cracks.

It had no means of surviving but the thread that bound it to home.

I promise, you will survive this," she had said. "Not only that, you will be glad to survive. You will love him forever, but you will learn things you could never have learned when you shared your life with him. You will become yourself.

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

Maybe all that was left after the war were damaged men.

She's going to keep up her public facade of stoicism and generosity and getting on with thungs. She knows she can do it, she can do the stiff upper lip thing. I will survive. But behind closed doors the going is rough. It's when she is alone that it hits her. And she is often alone, too often, she things no one should have to be alone as much as she is. It should have been me: her mind is a morass of old songs now, Errol Brown started it. It should have been me.

The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

So that there is enough to keep life together, it matters little what it is.

When you got nobody to love and nothing to live for, you can always make money.