Quotes About Survival

I've been so unhappy for years, so unhappy . . . I don't understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.

I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort.

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.

We're just living on our emotions and eating each other.

There can scarcely be anything worse than surviving something which shatters your mind and leaves you obsessed with revenge.

Sometimes one has got to become monstrous in order to survive.

He must play the game of survival until the very end.

Every night is an imitation of death. Without that I would have killed myself long ago.' She

Como todavía no hablase, dije: —¿Podríamos ser felices? Honor dijo: —Esto no tiene nada que ver con la felicidad, nada en absoluto. Era cierto. Acepté la promesa de sus palabras. Dije: —No sé si sobreviviré a ello. Honor dijo con una espléndida sonrisa: —¡Tienes que correr el riesgo!

The easiest thing to think was that he was going to die. This was not exactly an intent to commit suicide, though he did consider suicide, it was rather a sense of the impossibility of surviving much longer, whatever he did, whatever he chose. He felt rent apart by an unremitting mental, felt as physical, strain. When he was alone he groaned aloud.

A talent for oblivion is a talent for survival. I laid my head down and merciful pain-killing sleep covered me fathoms deep. Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

How did it make you feel?

We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet.

É, o mundo moderno tem um tipo de seleção natural e não tem jeito de eu me encaixar nessa história não. Os bichano tipo eu acabam tudo extinto.

Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.

The human race was only bearable when the obscene juices of living were being constantly washed away.

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

The colonization of space is the only possible salvation of Earth.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

What kind of a ridiculous animal are we to be lords of the world after the dinosaurs had failed? Sure, we're intelligent, but what's intelligence? We think it is important because we have it. If the Tyrannosaurus could have picked out the one quality that he thought would ensure species domination, it would be size and strength. And he would make a better case for it. He lasted longer than we're likely to.

Some day, with all that the Cities could do, the available calories per person would simply fall below basic subsistence level.

The men in this station survive by virtue of their jellyfish quality. There isn't one who would stand against him. Trying to rally the others to put pressure on Hallam would be like asking strands of cooked spaghetti to come to attention.

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable. And if we wish to push our own individual advantage, as we see it, then we will always find reason to believe that some hampering rule is unjust and unreasonable. What starts, then, as a shrewd trick ends in anarchy and disaster, even for the shrewd trickster, since he, too, will not survive the collapse of society.