Quotes About Survival

Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.

If you really have something to say, sooner or later it will be heard. And if you're lucky you'll still be alive.

Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.

I lived on oatmeal soup and apples. Nourishing enough.

And I'm part of the generation of South Africans who feel we're lucky to be alive.

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

If we go into space, we need enhancements that handle radiation and osteoporosis... or else we're dead. So what seems like an enhancement in one generation becomes life and death in another generation.

What do we do know?(Peeta)I guess we try to forget...(Katniss)I don't want to forget.(Peeta)

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread

Breaking News: I am still standing!

Rae Hachton, Frankie's Monster

She stole my dreams. I wanted to show her I can survive and now that won't happen

Even lungs that are gasping are lungs that are trying.

It's hopeless. And it's stupid. It's suicidal. But love is a weapon they have no answer for. They know how you think, but they can't know what you feel.

Maybe life should be about more than just surviving.

She knew she should say something profound, something beautiful in response. Instead, she spoke the truth. "If we make it out of here alive, I'm going to kiss you unconscious.

No hard feelings, lover. You can't break my heart. It stopped beating a long time ago.

The only way I survive is to never stop moving. I make sure I'm always surrounded by others, so I won't have time to think and end up imploding like a dying star.