Quotes About Survival

the country's inter-war anti-Semitism). But if east Europeans paid less attention in retrospect to the plight of the Jews, it was not just because they were indifferent at the time or preoccupied with their own survival. It is because the Communists imposed enough suffering and injustice of their own to forge a whole new layer of resentments and memories.

Keynes himself had taken the view that capitalism would not survive if its workings were reduced to merely furnishing the wealthy with the means to get wealthier.

I found that life has to be edited to continue.

While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she was eating or the chilblains on her hands and feet. She was suffering inside.

Cuvier has suggested that animal species sometimes die out when they are no longer suited to survive in the world. The idea is troubling to people because it suggests that God does not have a hand in it, that He created animals and then sat back and let them die.

Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months — and without a new thought for years on end.

It was like being a sheep wandering into a pack of wolves./ A unilateral... fear of the unknown.

I'm scared!!/ But it means I want to live!!

There's no paradise for you to escape to."-Guts,Lost Children Arc

Roman might have survived the Great Vampire War of 1710, but he was about to face an even worse terror. A mortal female in full rage.

Every single person out there has a crazy story. Every single person has some bizarre, life-shattering, pull-the-rug-out-from-under-you story in their past, or will experience one in their future.

Lie still,' she urged. 'You are hurt. Someone shot you, and damn near shot me, too. Who was it?' The head shook, the lips moved. He was clad in a workman's collarless blue shirt, and what had been a respectable grey serge suit before he had taken to dying in it.

If it wasn't for the roaming bands of dead, it might not be such a bad place.

Que extraño que un corazón roto pudiera latir aún

Ich war so... erleichtert, dass du am Leben warst, dass ich mir eingeredet habe, für die Sache mit der Wunde würde es schon irgendeine logische Erklärung geben. Aber vorhin unter der Dusche, da ist mir plötzlich ein Licht aufgegangen." "Ah, das wird es sein. Ich habe noch nicht geduscht.

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.

Tip for the day: never eat a bible when you're starving to death.

El miedo nos mantiene vivos.

Psychopaths are shadowmancers', the agent tells me, a large-scale map of the US dotted with timelines, hotspots and murderous crimson trajectories plastered across the wall behind his desk. 'They survive by moving around. They don't have the same need for close relationships that normal people do. So they live in an orbit of perpetual drift, in which the chances of running into their victims again is minimised.

I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.