Quotes About Survival

Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.

Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.

Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Man is the only animal to borrow tools.

Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.

Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.