Quotes About Survival

Jennifer had never liked the pain of remembering what had happened, but for Theo it was the pain that kept Laura alive in his memory. He was afraid that if it ever began to heal she would disappear.

The aircraft found the ground before Teddy did and he watched as it exploded in a glittery starburst of light. He would live, he realized. There would be an afterward after all. He gave thanks to whichever god had stepped in to save him.

She was one of those girls who wasn't entirely convinced that food was necessary for survival - anything more robust than a strawberry yoghurt made her anxious.

Sometimes Teddy wondered if everyone had done well out of the war except for those who had fought in it.

how strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.

I don't actually live here, Reggie said. Who does live here then? Ms. MacDonald, except that she doesn't because she's dead. Everyone's dead. I'm not, Jackson said. You're not.

It was the war, Juliet thought, remembering the photograph of the flamingo's creased wife, it has made refugees of us all.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.

Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.