Quotes About Survival

You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does

Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish

Did you know a crab will escape its shell thirty times before it dies? ... This world can be a trying place ... Sometimes you have to shed who you were to live who you are

Survive until tomorrow

People are only mean when they're threatened," he said later that day, "and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

Love each other or perish.' 

Love each other or die.

People are only mean when they're threatened

Love is how you stay alive.

Auden said, 'Love each other or perish.' 

People are only mean when they're threatened

when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish.' 

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to survive.

is how you stay alive.

How did you survive?" she asked. "All that time with your wife not with you?" "She was always with me," he said.

witnessing survival can make us believe in our own.

Man's instinct is to find a way to live, but who wants to be the last to die?

It was a cutthroat business, dog eat dog, the strong preying on the weak. In the lifestyle I was in, people were killed. It happened every day.

But this orange raft and its hidden notebook? They were a jolt to that misery. He wasn't sure why. Maybe it was the idea that something—even a few pages of something—had endured a tragedy and crossed an ocean to find him. It had survived. And witnessing survival can make us believe in our own.

Sarah watched the man sit alongside other homeless clients. Despite their awful circumstances, they were going on with life, getting through it as best they could.

It is the inner torture of every captured soldier, the short distance between freedom and seizure. If Eddie could only jump up and grab the wing of this plane, he could fly away from this mistake.