Quotes About Survival

For me, it feels as if Black embodied existence is in a constant and unrelenting state of trauma.

In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.

Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!

A company that can't sell what it makes can't stay in business. Eventually, inevitably, the marketplace will collapse and a global depression will hit that will make the last depression look like good times." Kelly

Poverty is much more than a way of life," Jack later wrote. "It goes much farther than skin-deep. It's no tattoo that fades with time. Nor a brand that can be put out of mind except when faced. Poverty, if you've known it, is you.

I took an instant liking to Miss Melancholy Delight. She looked like a bulldog who has - by mistake - been put through a washing machine. Nevertheless, I felt that any woman who had survived through life being called Melancholy Delight demanded my masculine support.

Eventually, having shoved enough down them to keep them more or less alive, I left them in their strawberry basket on the veranda

Imitai lo stile del Boy's Own Paper, sicchè ogni capitolo finiva nel momento più emozionante, con mamma aggredita da un giaguaro o Larry che si dibatteva tra le spire di un enorme pitone.

Ci ritrovammo tutti a bordo per un consiglio di guerra. La mia proposta di sopravvivere un altro paio di giorni nutrendoci di patelle fu immediatamente bocciata.

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.

America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the strongernot only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.

I still did not cry. I tried not to think of her. I had loved her too much, too intensely. In danger all the time, we had clung to one another. We had lived several lifetimes in our years together. Now she was gone." - Gerald Green, Holocaust

I knew something about myself. Killing was indecent, depraved. I would not get used to it. One killed to survive, to keep one's loved ones alive. No good attached to ending the lives of others. That Ukrainian kid had parents, a family, hopes. Like the millions of us now dying for no reason.

the more adapted an organism was to present conditions, the less adaptable it tended to be to unknown future conditions.

Survival requires that we learn to laugh things off and start over

I must be alive," Gawain said hoarsely. "Dead doesn't hurt this much.

the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate difference, like Spain in the Convivencia, and everything's humming along: creative, prosperous. Then somehow this fear, this hate, this need to demonize 'the other'--it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists...same old, same old.

If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.

Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.

Systems die; instincts remain.

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

Life is ever since man was born, licking honey from a thorn.