Quotes About Survival

Sólo hay una guerra que puede permitirse el ser humano: la guerra contra su extinción

If the stars must someday die, at least some could yet be built.

It wasn't the bomb that defeated us, but our own shell shock.

With the blind jumps we took through hyperspace, it's lucky we didn't land up in a sun's belly.

In a Galaxy where the predominance—and even survival—of the Foundation still rested upon the superiority of its technology—even despite its large access of physical power in the last century and a half—a certain immunity adhered to The Scientist. He was needed, and he knew it.

Our own civilization has a dubious future, and if we can express the reason in brief it is that we find it difficult (perhaps impossible) to cooperate in solving our problems. We are too contentious a species and apparently find our local quarrels to be more important than our overall survival.

I know this much: species evolve only to meet the pressures of new environments. In a stable environment, a species may remain unchanged for millions of Centuries. Primitive man evolved rapidly because his environment was a harsh and changing one. Once, however, mankind learned to create his own environment, he created a pleasant and stable one, so he just naturally stopped evolving.

Therefore, for the sake of all of us, let's abandon our useless, endless, suicidal bickering and unite behind the real task that awaits us—to survive—to learn—to expand—to enter into a new level of knowledge. Let us strive to inherit the Universe that is waiting for us; doing so alone, if we must, or in company with others—if they are there.

There is no such thing as love. Give me a cigarette. In the camp, people climbed on one another like worms.

A lion attacks a herd of zebras and kills one. The frightened zebras run for a while and then they stop and start to graze again. Do they have a choice?

The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

El mundo es violento y predatorio, regido por la ley implacable de los más fuertes. La selección de la especie no ha servido para que florezca la inteligencia o evolucione el espíritu. A la primera oportunidad nos destrozamos unos a otros como ratas prisioneras en una caja demasiado estrecha.

Se repetía la metáfora del abedul, que se dobla ante la tempestad, pero no se quiebra.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

Non me ne potevo andare perché lontana da questa terra sarei stata come gli alberi che tagliano a Natale, quei poveri pini senza radici che durano un po di tempo e poi muoiono.

Hi. I'm on the run from the FBI, Interpol, and a Las Vegas criminal gang," I announced bluntly, to avoid any misunderstandings. "Congratulations," he said.

Barrabás llegó a la familia por vía marítima, anotó la niña Clara con su delicada caligrafía. Ya entonces tenía el hábito de escribir las cosas importantes (…) sin sospechar que cincuenta años después, sus cuadernos me servirían para rescatar la memoria del pasado y para sobrevivir a mi propio espanto.

I discovered that social climbing was a middle-class phenomenon, the poor never gave it a thought, they were too busy trying to survive. Over the years these communities acquired political savvy, they organized and became fertile territory for leftist parties. Ten years later, in 1970, they were decisive in electing Salvador Allende and for that reason had to suffer the greatest repression during the dictatorship.

murieron cerca de quince mil personas en esos campos franceses de hambre, inanición, maltrato y enfermedades.

I felt like I'd been emptied out from the inside, I was a bloody cavity, I couldn't breathe, my bones were made of wax, my soul had taken flight. And the world still turned as if nothing had happened: I stand up, take one step then another, find my voice and respond, I haven't lost my mind, I drink water, my mouth full of sand, my eyes burning, and my little girl stiff, frozen, sculpted in alabaster

la gracia no era morirse, puesto que eso llegaba de todos modos, sino sobrevivir, que era un milagro

Barrabás llegó a la familia por vía marítima, anotó la niña Clara con su delicada caligrafía. Ya entonces tenía el hábito de escribir las cosas importantes y más tarde, cuando se quedó muda, escribía también las trivialidades, sin sospechar que cincuenta años después, sus cuadernos me servirían para rescatar la memoria del pasado y para sobrevivir a mi propio espanto.

Una vita tranquilla e sicura non è materiale adatto alla scrittura.[...] Ho vissuto in un mare in tempesta, con onde che mi portavano sulla cresta e poi mi facevano precipitare nel vuoto [...] Ora navigo alla deriva, giorno dopo giorno, contenta del semplice fatto di galleggiare finché è possibile.