Quotes About Survival

I began to see how the world must become if I were to live in it.

I know they was families got thowed off their farms back in the thirties by the TVA and come to Anderson County and got thowed off all over again. They was even families had been removed from their homesteads in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the thirties, TVA in the thirties again, and the atom bomb in the forties. By that time they didnt have nothin.

They was some of em wound up just livin in the woods like animals. And that was a cold winter, too. People would see em crossin the road at night in the carlights. Whole families. Carryin blankets. Pots and pans. People tried to find em. Take em some flour and meal. Coffee. Maybe a little sidemeat. I think about those children. I do yet.

Cormac McCarthy

Men spared their lives in great disasters often feel in their deliverance the workings of fate. The hand of Providence.

Cormac McCarthy

Eine Katastrophe kann durch noch so viel Gutes nicht ausgelöscht werden. Sondern nur durch eine noch schlimmere Katastrophe.

The drought didnt know when the last one was and nobody knew when the next one was coming.

A week later I went on R and R and three weeks after that I was back in an AC-130 all strapped in and ready to die all over again.

When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk to you, you dont wake up forever.

Cormac McCarthy

You're just trying to keep alive long enough to stay that way.

You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.

Overseen all day by a goldtoothed pervert who carried a plaited rawhide quirt and harried them down the gutters on their knees gathering up the filth.

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way. He

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

the major enemy of black survival in America has been and is neither oppression nor exploitation but rather the nihilistic threat—that is, loss of hope and absence of meaning. For as long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive. The self-fulfilling prophecy of the nihilistic threat is that without hope there can be no future, that without meaning there can be no struggle.

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

Jacob Reckless überlebt alles. Wer wei? das besser als du? Ich bin sicher, du kannst nicht an dem Fingern abzählen, wie often er eigentlich schon hätte tot sein müssen.

Die Füchsin<<, sagte er. >>Die Füchsin, ist alles was ich brauche.

You think this is a trap, then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive." William Goldman, The Princess Bride

She had been beaten down by too many boys and men, too much hurt and poverty and fear. This was what Mala was destined to become, someone who ran from her attackers because she couldn't afford to anger them. She wouldn't do it.

A 'job creator' is someone who figures out how to threaten you with starvation unless you do something you don't want to do.