Quotes About Survival

Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it." (divergent pg.138)

People die and people cry people want me dead.

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.

The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.

Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want to drop in and chat, and therefore last longer.

Marketers want to get their messages in front of you. They must get their messages in front of you, just to survive. The only problem is-do you really want more marketing messages?

Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.

For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I'm only going to have to run.

This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.

Watch out for people who feel weak. They may want to feel strong one day and you might not survive that moment.

But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.

Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.

I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.

Life was a war against a thousand enemies, from the sustenance carved from nature to the insanity of a people's will to do wrong in the name of right.

Histories, they're just what's survived. But they're not the whole story, because the whole story can never be known. Think of all the histories we've gone and lost. Not just kingdoms and empires, but the histories inside every one of us, every person who ever lived.

Why not? How has her infamous, unceasing sorrow for the plight of mortals done them any good, any at all, Hurlochel? It's easy to weep when staying far away, doing nothing. When you take credit for every survivor out there – those whose own spirits fought the battle, whose own spirits refused to yield to Hood's embrace.

Creation demands destruction. Survival demands that something else fails to survive. No existence was truly benign.

the natural force, the core of the struggle to exist is the desire to not just survive, but thrive. And to thrive is to feed on victims, ever more victims...