Quotes About Survival

the only answers that are useful are the ones that will help us survive into the future.

Books turn out to be pretty durable if they're kept away from damp and rats. They can last hundreds of years, easy. Reading is another way we survive. It helps to know where we came from, how we got here. And most of all, for me, even thought these low and empty islands are all I have ever known, when I open the front cover of a new book, it's like a door, and I can travel far away in place and time.

Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.

Only an animal visibly damages its mate.

Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

Were not the autonomy of the individual the secret longing of many people it would scarcely be able to survive the collective suppression either morally or spiritually.

One could hardly call the things that have happened, and still happen, in the concentration camps of the dictator states an "accidental lack of perfection"—it would sound like mockery.

The whole of the libido is needed for the battle of life.

Hypothermia was curling back its lips and exposing its sharp teeth.

For the next few minutes, time stood still and Cassie was transported into a real-life version of hell. Even as she watched it, she knew she'd never be able to scrub the images from her mind for the rest of her life. She had to remind herself to breathe.

THE JOE PICKETT NOVELS Long Range Wolf Pack The Disappeared Vicious Circle Off the Grid Endangered Stone Cold Breaking Point Force of Nature Cold Wind Nowhere to Run Below Zero Blood Trail Free Fire In Plain Sight Out of Range Trophy Hunt Winterkill Savage Run Open Season THE STAND-ALONE NOVELS The Bitterroots Paradise Valley Badlands The Highway Back of Beyond Three Weeks to Say Goodbye

perspective. Related biologically to goats, not antelope (despite their name), pronghorn were uniquely evolved to survive and prosper in

But she was still conscious. She had no concept of time or motion, but she could hear the sound of his boots scraping gravel outside the car. And she could feel the sharp prick of a needle through the fabric of her jeans into her inner thigh.

the maxim he'd always lived by: "Take every possible opportunity you can to eat and take a shit, because this county is 3,500 square miles, a third of it roadless.

Hide in plain sight, that was the way out here. He would learn something from that.

a Nean derthal with a badge.

Coyotes did coyote things.

After a dozen deaths, you learn not to care. After a hundred, you can't even if you wanted to.

You're a Boy Scout?" "Well, I was until I got kicked out." "What did you get kicked out for?" "I kept getting lost.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Mis sentidos se acostumbraron a ese bosque de traiciones y engaños, poblado por depredadores bien alimentados que la rodeaban como una manada de lobos a su presa.

GRIEF IS SELFISH. It enshrouds us, clutches us to its desiccated breast like an anxious mother. It does not want us to leave, though we know we must if we are to survive. Only madness lies ahead for those who cannot escape it, for grief will consume those who have nothing else to live for.

Você fica pesando as médias que faz todos os dias, para poder sobreviver. O saldo é meio amargo.