Quotes About Survival

You must change in order to survive.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again.

One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.

I have called the principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.

You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love, they have always been in love, although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two, he replies four loaves.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.

If there's no bread, cakes are very good.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.