Quotes About Survival

There is no shame in fear. It's what keeps you and yours alive.

stretch, weeding out his own ranks. Our attempt at an end

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One day, Tubman recalled, she was whipped five times before breakfast—and her neck bore the scars from this incident for the rest of her life.

You're born but you're not buried yet.

Anyway, as they say, where there's life, there's hope. So let us eat.

Néanmoins, les Allemands noirs comprirent rapidement que l'art du spectacle constituait pour eux un moyen d'échapper aux persécutions

Compte tenu de la rareté relative des Allemands noirs et du nombre élevé de figurants nécessités par l'usine à images de Goebbels, le cinéma devint un moyen privilégié de survie pour échapper au pire.

Métis writer Joeanne Arnott (1994) notes that, passing is one of the very few options for survival of a mixed-race people in virulently racist society (59). The decision to withhold important information about cultural ancestry is one that causes pain and suffering in the long term. (p.39)

A crash sounded from the exhibition room. OrbaLin spun around to face the smashed doors. "And maybe they never left." The archivist flicked out his wrist and a short lightsaber appeared in his waiting hand, delivered from a secret compartment in his suit. For all his quirks, the archivist had class, but would it be enough to keep them both alive?

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

She was being a jealous, bitter and incredibly selfish friend, she knew that, but Holly needed to be selfish these days in order to survive. She

The machine has helped the creator of the machine to survive. No, it hasn't helped him. It has kept him alive. Gave him reason. A thing he felt his life was deeply lacking in.

And just because he's dead doesn't mean I have to stop living too.

Menschen sind nicht grausam. [...] Aber sie haben einen starken Selbsterhaltungstrieb und mischen sich, solange sie nicht direkt betroffen sind lieber nicht ein, wenn es Probleme gibt.

Consider this. The essence of war is to kill your enemy and not get killed yourself.

We should remember that it's easier to destroy than to build, and it's really easy to destroy something you have no stake in. It was the 10 percent cut in wages that precipitated The Strike. The Bosses reduced their workers' stake in their operations below the minimum necessary for survival, while denying them any legal recourse. That was when the real Atlas shrugged. 

In nature, a dog's life is very simple. Because dog's realities are formed primarily by the senses, they live moment by moment, and everything is focused on what they need to survive [...] Dogs do not worry about the future or dwell on the past. They exist in the moment, which can be something very difficult for humans to understand, especially with the stresses of modern life.

When your world is destroyed and only a remnant is saved, then whatever is seen as a threat to that remnant becomes a hated enemy.

An Austrian philosopher named Jean Améry, tortured by the Gestapo because of his activity with the Belgian resistance and then deported to Auschwitz because he was a Jew, wrote that anyone who has been tortured remains forever tortured and can never again be at ease in the world. One's faith in humanity is broken and can never be acquired again.

Excuse me, you taught trope in Theresienstadt?

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

There were definitely parts of my character I didn't approve of, and maybe from time to time I had moments when I didn't like myself much. But I got through each day as it came to me, and so far I'd survived every thing life had thrown at me. I could only hope that the survival was worth the price I'd paid.

But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home. I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here.