Quotes About Survival

it is so dark now with the sadness of people they were tricked, they were taught to expect the ultimate when nothing is promised now young girls weep alone in small rooms old men angrily swing their canes at visions as ladies comb their hair as ants search for survival history surrounds us and our lives slink away in shame.

if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

I run with the hunted.

The ocean, I said, look at it out there, battering, crawling up and down. And underneath all that, the fish, the poor fish fighting each other, eating each other. We're like those fish, only we're up here. One bad move and you're finished. It's nice to be a champion. It's nice to know your moves.

nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.

As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.

Nobody can save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise, and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. But don't, don't, don't. It's a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Nobody can save you but yourself, and you're worth saving.

That's how they hooked you—they gave you just enough to keep alive but they never gave you enough so you could finally escape.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row. There are some real weirdos down there. They're everywhere.

sometimes you die sometimes you don't.

Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I've got several degrees. Call me Mr.

i do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear...

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

I closed my eyes and listened to the waves. Thousands of fish out there, eating each other. Endless mouths and assholes swallowing and shitting. The whole earth was nothing but mouths and assholes swallowing and shitting, and fucking.

Just living until you die is hard work

mainly thinking, well, I'm still alive and have the ability to expel wastes from my body and poems. and as long as that's happening I have the ability to handle betrayal loneliness hangnail clap and the economic reports in the financial section.

I find that when the pain gets bad enough there are only three things to do — get drunk, kill yourself or laugh. I usually get drunk and laugh.

How much shit does a man have to take just to stay alive?" "Plenty," came the answer, "and more …

There are too many ways to drown even if you don't want to drown.

luckily, I found a few other crazed men who almost remained that way until they died.

I was the only one without. you could hit bottom and then find another bottom. balls.

Just living until you die is hard work, I said