Quotes About Survival

As she voiced all this out loud for the first time, she found a long-buried inner strength, and with it a conviction that her sanity and indeed her very survival depended on her walking away.

She had been shot once, point-blank in the chest, from five, maybe six feet away.

Part of the practice of celebrating is pausing and owning our own healing, movement, change, and positive shifts in our lives. It starts with us. It helps to look at where we've been, where we are now, what we've overcome, what we've survived, what we've learned, how we've changed.

A gunshot is the loudest sound in the universe. Especially if the bullet is coming at you.

Deer in headlights. Cornered suspect. Mouse in the open, owls circling.

then flats of marigolds and petunias. Made of sterner stuff, I figured, their sort might survive my regime of horticultural neglect.

Like hamadryas baboons, the females in the troop were herded and controlled. Worse. They were pimped and swapped, tattooed and burned, beaten and killed. And yet they stayed.

Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall…Once again, only Ben's reflexes had saved him. "Please stop doing that!" Ben barked. "Please keep doing that!" Hi warbled.

Hiram!' Shelton ran to Hi's side. 'Aren't you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!' 'Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.' He winced as Shelton poked his belly. 'But I'm not leaping off any more shelves. That was pretty stupid.

Mara, anything could kill any one of us, today, tomorrow. The Yuuzhan Vong could pull down one of Coruscant's moons, or we could fall out of a window. Life is risk." -Luke Skywalker

The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.

I'm Allen Walker!" My life....is over...I'm going to die....

If there's nobody left, even if the real world is saved, I will be destroyed... So please don't die. Please don't go away anymore... -Lenalee Lee

Our injuries will heal as long as we're alive. But the scars will remain..." - Allen Walker

There's another side to this war. This time, try not to get killed halfway through.

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

Death takes people away from us all our lives. We have to move on. Or die ourselves.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

I figure I made out pretty good considering the rest of my family is either dead or crazy.

The rules are simple: the first one to lose dies.

Finch knew that no matter how old it might say she was on her I.D., what those men had done to her had shoved her headlong into adulthood.

you must try to get on with things or the grief will destroy you. You must put away the reminders of loss to have any hope of surviving

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

It's not a calculation. It's a smart woman's instinct for self defense.