Quotes About Survival

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

Running is never fun. Running is something that you do when there's a man chasing you with a knife.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.

There are men too gentle to live among wolves.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.