Quotes About Survival

They put me in solitary confinement, and although I went on to do 8,755 days of solitary in total, the first two were the hardest. I almost went mad, beating my head against the wall.

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody.

If I had to live on a desert island, and somebody gave me a chicken, there's no way I'd kill it - I'd call it Henry and make it my friend.

You probably need 1/10 of the world's population for us to continue to exist. There's just too many damn people. You have to somehow get us from 7 billion people to... I don't know what the magic number is, but I imagine at some point, that will happen. And I don't know about you, but I don't think I'm making the cut.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

I don't want you to have to handle it. That's the horror of my past. But you...you're the reality of my present. You're the proof I survived. The prize in the cereal box.

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.

He felt the quicksand of failure sucking at his feet, threatening to bury him, to drown him.Jeana E. Mann. Intoxicated (Kindle Location 2125).

Life comes at you hard and fast, it doesn't slow for anybody. It weathers you, destroys you. It breaks down your mind, body, and soul until there's nothing left. Then what?

Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.

A SCAR SHOULDN'T REMIND YOU OF HOW YOU GOT HURT AND THE PAIN THAT CAME WITH IT…A SCAR SHOULD SIMPLY REMIND YOU THAT YOU SURVIVED

I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.

I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a relationship.

Love has turned to be a sad tragedy of my life even we both are alive

A true love is never defeated.Even when in ashes, it whirls and finds solace with air

The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive

Memories is all that you have, which help you survive the storms and struggles of your daily life after you lose someone!

the rape willtear youin halfbut it will notend you