Quotes About Survival

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.

The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.

One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With 'The Hunger Games,' the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.

Harassment is the background radiation of my life. It is a factor in every decision I make. Any time I tweet something or make a post, I'm always thinking about it.

I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.

I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.

I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to procreate because it's in the genetic law.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

Looks like the safest spot here for a human who doesn't want to get eaten. (Kish)

Two guys enter the cage and only one comes out the winner. It gets you pumped because you know the other guy is trying to finish you and you want to finish him before he gets his chance.

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.