Quotes About Survival

People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. they don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

Depression is like war. You either win or you die trying. There's no in between.

War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.

Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

Surviving Is the only warWe can afford

The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.

War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.

I will follow anyone...And remind everyone...Of enslaved Yazidi women...Raped...And forced...To donate blood to ISIS men...

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.

6, 000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

Without love, the world itself would not survive.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever.