Quotes About Survival

need for air and water, necessary for survival.

you can do is nothing." (T. Roosevelt) Berlin, 1945

Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I'm not saying that the truth doesn't matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.

According to population expert Dr. Paul Ehrlich, we should currently be experiencing a dystopian dreamscape where "survivors envy the dead," which seems true only when I look at Twitter. Yet

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work.

In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

If you're ever in a big hotel lobby, and they start to play The Blue Danube Waltz, get the hell out. Don't think. Run.

We'd turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we'd survive to talk about.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

No shit, there's worse ways to be dead than dying.

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

Don't ask me when be­cause I don't re­mem­ber, but some­where along the way I keep for­get­ting to com­mit sui­cide.

Birds ate my face.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

She'd lived through something the rest of them could never imagine. So much torture and horror that she didn't need to tell people about it. She'd never need drama or joy or pain ever again.

It happens fast for some people and slow for other, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. (Narrator)