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Quotes About Survival

For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.
~ Kate Bush
After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.
~ Loudon Wainwright III
There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles
~ Louis L'Amour
I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?
~ Malachy McCourt
I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.
~ Manute Bol
Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.
~ Mark Twain
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
~ Margaret Atwood
The War will leave none of us as it found us.
~ May Sinclair
If your war is for your existence, fight it right to the end!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Wars can destroy everything but hope!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
War stinks! There's nothing good about it. But you know the whole thing, it's you or them.
~ Michael E. Thornton
I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is.
~ Stephenie Meyer
For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
~ Steven Spielberg
Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?
~ Veronica Roth
The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
~ William Shatner
Living in war is a co- existence with death.
~ Zainab Salbi
Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma
~ John F. Kennedy
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
~ Winston Churchill
It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.
~ Pat Frank, Hold Back The Night
Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn't human.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes