Quotes About Survival

I came through the crucible, and it did not reduce me to ashes. I survived.

He's more than just the baby she found all those years ago. He's the proof that out of a great pile of ashes you can still find something that the fire didn't take.

When people are thrown into an abyss and together find their way out of it, they are not the same people. They are bound to one

The primroses always come back. Even after a hard winter, they find a way to survive. They come back every spring.

That makes it survival. That is what you do in war. You find a way to survive.

Despite our best efforts, you came to the game at different times and as you know for different reasons. All the reasons go back to the fact that the game board has drastically changed. Know that it always does, though. War, drought, famine, illness, death, poverty. The game board changes underneath your feet. We did not want you to feel the pain of this.

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.

Country living—and definitely living in the country with a lot of animals—isn't peaceful. It's full of blood and guts and murder and rivalry and treachery and chaos, in a lovely green pitiless world.

Books cannot be killed by fire," he declared. "People die, but books never die.

I hate hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

sickly, but they'd both grown stronger on the trail.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.

Only memory cannot be burned.

There was inside her a core of fury and independence and self-preservation, the genetic heritage of survival.

Wasn't it heroic enough, just staying alive when life got this hard?

The Great Fire of London] hesitated, and it finally began to flicker out. But four-fifths of London had been burned...Londoner John Evelyn, weeping, wrote in his diary, "London was, but is no more.

Civilization began in the Fertile Crescent, not because it was an Edenic place overflowing with natural resources, but because it was so hostile to settlement that a village of any size needed careful management to survive.

Her mother always said that dressing properly could save one's life

Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

Fear isn't a bad travel companion. Sometimes, it saves your life.

I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.