Quotes About Survival

Martin tried to shut her down by talking about the intrinsically vulnerable circumstances of farming, and she countered by snappishly reminding them all of the vulnerability of fucking starving to death.

End of the day, anything that made you discount objective reality and assign a premium to some kind of internal mental state was going to be both pro-survival and pro–status-quo.

Screw the end of the world. The world doesn't end. Humans aren't the kind of things that have endings.

It was hard to tell whether things were deteriorating or whether it was just the usual baseline of craziness, made more vivid by the fact that they'd all hunkered down in a fortress to await the collapse of civilization.

Boredom was unquestionably the worst part of the end of the world.

I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.

Uh-oh, thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. This person wants to kill me.

OUTCASTS! R-R-RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, YOU S-S-SSTUPID H-H-HUMANS!!!

When a young rabbit spots a hawk circling above, it may never have seen such a creature before- but there is some ancestral memory that tells it to be afraid, to leap in great, panicky bounds to the safety of the burrow

Det är en sak att stiga i land på en ny kontinent under pompa och ståt, från ett stort och tungt beväpnat fartyg, med gåvor och bytesvaror och god mat. Att däremot anlända mer eller mindre naken, obeväpnad, försvarslös och utan minsta gåva, är en helt annan sak, nåt som alla stackars flyktingar genom historien kan intyga.

You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn't separate us from nature. Civilization protects us from nature.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

I've been wondering lately whether fear is necessary for survival, whether it sharpens the senses during storms of uncertainity. Or is it, as I suspect, merely another variant of weakness?

It's remarkable, isn't it, Mr. Bennet said, that for decades at a time, I've stayed alive without your daily instructions?

Napoli è la più misteriosa città d'Europa, è la sola città del mondo antico che non sia perita come Ilio, come Ninive, come Babilonia. È la sola città del mondo che non è affondata nell'immane naufragio della civiltà antica. Napoli è una Pompei che non è stata mai sepolta. Non è una città: è un mondo.

Oggi si soffre e si fa soffrire, si uccide e si muore, si compiono cose meravigliose e cose orrende, non già per salvare la nostra anima, ma per salvare la propria pelle.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.

There could be no home for the Tillermans. Home free — Dicey would settle for a place to stay. Stay free.

He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.

A bird doesn't feel sorry for itself in the winter.

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

He had so very nearly lost his life, that what remained was wonderfully precious to him.

He felt that if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.