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Quotes About Survival

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
~ Emile M. Cioran
I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.
~ Ethel Waters
Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food.
~ Gary Larson
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
~ George Herbert
Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.
~ George Orwell
Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.
~ George R. R. Martin
I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.
~ Glen Cook
I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.
~ Gregory David Roberts
This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
~ H. G. Wells
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.
~ Louis L'Amour
...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.
~ Louis L'Amour
Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.
~ Maureen Johnson
To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.
~ Michael Pollan
How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?
~ Michel de Montaigne
How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
~ Michel de Montaigne
For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.
~ Michel'le
No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.
~ Nicholas Sparks
A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
~ Patrick Ness