Quotes About Survival

a new form of democratic eco-socialism, with the humility to learn from Indigenous teachings about the duties to future generations and the interconnection of all life, appears to be humanity's best shot at collective survival.

there has been a dramatic decrease in birth and survival rates of caribou calves. It seems that rising temperatures have changed the growing patterns of plants that are the source of critical energy for caribou calves, as well as for their mothers during reproduction and lactation.

There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away.

There was only me to save me, because no one else cared.

There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away.

I could never afford to look past survival, especially not for anything as insanely expensive as happiness, and I don't believe in it anyway.

I think everyone else felt as I did, secretly and irrationally, that if we could only succeed, if we could only destroy the whole place, we could save ourselves from ever having been in here.

I couldn't be his savior; I had enough to do saving myself.

They would have devoured my family and picked their teeth with the bones, and never been sorry at all. Better to be turned to ice by the Staryk, who didn't pretend to be a neighbor.

Oddly enough constantly being on the verge of malnourishment, exhaustion and mortal terror isn't really conductive to romance.

There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That it what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away. And if there has been food in my house for you, then I am glad, glad with all my heart. I hope there will always be.

Decidí que Orion debía morir cuando me salvó la vida por segunda vez.

she's been living alone with a man for ten years, so of course she's ruined, even though the girls all say he never puts a hand on them.

There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies.

Kennelijk willen veel van ons vandaag de eerste run doen,' zei Alfie op die opgewekte toon waarop een ander wellicht zou zeggen: 'Zo te zien gaat het regenen vandaag!' terwijl het al met bakken uit de hemel komt en je onder een luifel staat te schuilen met vijf anderen met een mes in hun hand, en jij voorzichtig je hand in je zak steek om je pistool te pakken.

Ik wilde niet alleen dat zij míj hielpen om te overleven. Ik wilde dat zíj overleefden.

Me vino muy bien verlos permanecer allí sentados y no acudir en mi ayuda, porque cuando terminé de gritar por segunda vez y el desollador consiguió entrar, comprendí que estaba totalmente sola y que tendría que apañármelas como pudiera, pues no le importaba a nadie más.

Lots of us up for first run today," Alfie said, in the bright sort of way that someone might say, Well, looks like rain, doesn't it! when it's sheeting down and you've taken shelter under an awning with five people who've all got knives drawn, and you're quietly reaching into your pocket for a handgun.

could only buy it by giving in sooner, giving in all the time; like Scheherazade, humbly asking my murderous husband to go on sparing me night after night. And

Laurence reached up to wipe the grime from his face, and finding his hand come away red with gore felt back to where his scalp hung open and wet. Help me fold it up again, he said. A head wound is always a bloody nuisance; but unless my brains are out in the air, I suppose it will not kill me.

What would it be like to be a turtle inside a shell hit by hailstones?

what twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?

I thought about enduring. Maybe losers get to be taken care of! The truth is we were so wronged and so forgotten we had to become heroes to survive at all.

Even if we never seek out pornography, we often see rape where sex should be. Since most women repress our awareness of that in order to survive being entertained, it can take concentration to remember.