Quotes About Survival

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man ... , keep alive for yourselves.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.

There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.