Quotes About Survival

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

In the mighty vortex of the world's history, which inexorably crushes all peoples that are not as hard and as flexible as steel, such a nation could not permanently maintain itself.

For the first time, Mary understood the attraction of coffee. If you have been up all night, escaping from a burning mental asylum or fighting men who refuse to die when you shoot them in the forehead, or both, coffee is the perfect beverage.

Nothing would give up life:Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

Laissez-faire, says the professor, when it often means bind and gag that the strongest may work his will. It is a plea for the survival of the fittest—for the strongest male to take possession of the herd by a process of extermination.

The warm sand did feel good on my feet and now I was almost glad that we didn't have to spend another night on the hard, wet boards of the raft.

It's ironic that some plants thrive in soil that has been displaced. Due to the devastation around us, these flowers bloom profusely, yet I find their tenacity and beauty uplifting.

Tu n'étais plus qu'un insecte prisonnier d'une araignée repue, qui te gardait en réserve pour un repas à venir. Elle t'avait capturé pour te savourer en toute quiétude, quand l'envie lui viendrait de goûter ton sang. Tu imaginais ses pattes velues, ses gros yeux globuleux, implacables, son ventre mou, gorgé de viande, vibrant, gélatineux, et ses crocs venimeux, sa bouche noire qui allait te sucer la vie.

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

As good Archbishop Loménie was wont to say: 'There are so many accidents; and it needs but one to save us.'—How many to destroy us?

Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.

I've had malaria damn near eight times.

I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. It's a rough city to grow up in, and it's a modern-day ghost town.

I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Black, poor, without a father most of my life, one of 10 children - it was actually pretty amazing I had made it to the age of 29 without a noose around my neck.

I was stabbed in the neck when I was 15.

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.