Quotes About Survival

We'll never escape the limits of the ecosystem. We are caught in the food chain, whether we like it or not, eating and being eaten.

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

Disasters make us aware that the life force within us needs tending daily. This is why we are here." – Dr. Anne Redelfs

Getting up and putting on your shoes after a disaster is a badge of honor." -- Dr. Thomas Demaria

but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.

the biggest damage to the Baghdad Zoo had not been done in battle, fierce as it had been. It was the looters. They had killed or kidnapped anything edible and ransacked everything else. Even the lamp poles had been unbolted, tipped over, and their copper wiring wrenched out like multicolored spaghetti. As we drove past, we could see groups of looters still at it, scavenging like colonies of manic ants.

Wildlife can absorb adversity that would destroy a human without a blink.

Malooh, the Bengal tiger,

And there we were in the Croc Pools: a herd of elephants, two crocodiles, a dog, and a sweaty group of men united by the most basic instinct of all—

When one registers the fact that our very own survival depends upon the wellbeing of all life on our planet, one starts to understand that we are the ones responsible for the state we find Earth in today.

Lawrence Anthony

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Paper may burn but words will escape.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. —Mike Tyson

Survival must be the highest objective; otherwise nothing could be achieved.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. —J. Robert Oppenheimer

I concluded that no place in the world was entirely safe for an African, and that for many of us, survival depended on perpetual migration.

The same concern about the coming of the Antichrist lay behind much of what Roger Bacon—also a Franciscan friar—wrote to the pope about sixty years earlier: the church will need mathematical, scientific, technological, medical, and other knowledge to resist and survive the assault of the Antichrist.