Quotes About Survival

WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.

I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

Man is the hardest animal to kill. If he gets away he will come back to kill you.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.