Quotes About Survival

You're sleeping with an assassin, running for your life every single day from men who want to kill you and you're convinced you're going to die of discomfort.

If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?

I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop

I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you're okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you're here, you're surviving; this moment is okay.

Opinion free brands simply will struggle to survive in the future - of that simple reason that we increasingly want to associate ourselves with opinionated and authentic brands.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel

Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.

I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

There's no shame in having to fight every day, but fighting every day, and presumably, if you're still alive to hear these words or read this interview, then you are winning your war. You're here.

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

No soldier ever really survives a war.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

There's a war going on outside no man is safe from. You can run but you can't hide forever.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.