Quotes About Survival

Sayid Halabi was rotting in the Somali desert thanks to Scott Coleman

If there was one thing their family dynamics proved, it was that everyone managed trauma differently. They all had their own ways of getting by.

Man is an endangered species.

Man," said Terl, "is an endangered species.

Every scar, every mark on my body is a reminder that I survived. Just living through it made me who I am." I

A girl that's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.

While there are some who extol your virtues, Miss Faber, there are others who wonder why you are not yet hanged." "I have determined that hanging would not suit my constitution, Sir, so I have tried to avoid it." A

Even if you kill her, she'll still be alive-here." He tapped his chest. "In me. I keep her here. She's part of me. So until you kill me, you can't really kill her. And you can't win. It's that simple.

QUINN; You always look after Number One, don't you? ASH; Doesn't everybody?

War and hunting and chasing-that's all there is. That's life, Jenny-no one can escape it.

Listen to me, Jez. There's no reason for you to die-" Wood...poison." No it isn't! Not to humans. And you're half human. You're vampire enough to survie something that would kill a human, but you're human enough not to be poisoned by wood.

It was, after all, the natural order of things. Animals killed weaker animals. Humans killed animals. I killed humans. Every species had their foe. I shuddered to think what monster was powerful enough to hunt me.

She had danced with death so often that she knew the moves better than she knew her own heartbeat.

She needs to know she wasn't weak. She needs to know she was strong enough to survive and they didn't because she was strong enough to hold on until help could arrive. It will help her heal.

Patton was bombed, strafed, shelled—but he thrived on it. At the summit of a badly littered road over a hill he stopped to survey the scarred and scorched landscape of war—rubbish that used to be farms, fields in which the grass was burning, hundreds of stiff-legged, dead cattle. He threw out his arms as if trying to embrace the scene, and shouted to the sky, "Could anything be more magnificent?!

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.

There wasn't any point in living when all you could do was survive.

The elders teach us: be a trickster, and you will survive.

From that blighted time came the saying: when bellies speak, reason is lost.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see of we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.

How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?