Quotes About Survival

For what are called criminals nowadays are not criminals at all.  Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.  That indeed is the reason why our criminals are, as a class, so absolutely uninteresting from any psychological point of view.  They are not marvellous Macbeths and terrible Vautrins.  They are merely what ordinary, respectable, commonplace people would be if they had not got enough to eat. 

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

La risa es la actitud primitiva hacia la vida, una forma de acercamiento que sólo sobrevive en artistas y criminales.

Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime'.

Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. I hate it. Why? said the younger man wearily. Because, said Lord Henry, passing beneath his nostrils the gilt trellis of an open vinaigrette box, one can survive everything nowadays except that.

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

No one survives being over-estimated, nor is there any surer way of destroying an author's reputation than to glorify him without judgement and to praise him without tact.

Bana bunu yok ettiÄŸini söylemiÅŸtin. Yanl?? söylemiÅŸim. O beni yok etti.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Agamemnon escaped with his life From land battles and sea storms, then fell to his wife.

You will be separated from yourself and yet be alive.

I have no language to paint the horrors of our situation. To shed tears was indeed altogether unavailing and withal unmanly yet I was not able to deny myself the relief they served to afford me.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

Here's a newsflash from the only High Preistess you have left at this dang school: Zoey isn't dead. And believe me, I know dead. I've been there, done that, and got the frickin' T-shirt. - Stevie Rae

Yeah, fucknuts, its you. You're me. To get into this place, You're gonna have to kill me. Which is not gonna happen 'cause I'm not so cool with dying. What is gonna happen is that i'm gonna kick your ass and kill you dead.

I know dead. I've been there, done that and got the freakin' T-shirt.

Been dead, done that got a fricken t-shirt

How did it all end?' 'Oh, I got away with my life. Still, what's life?' 'Life's all right.

Experience, dearly bought in the days of his residence at the University, had taught him that when the Law gripped you with its talons the only thing to do was to give a false name, say nothing and hope for the best.

One of the first lessons life teaches us is that on these occasions of back-chat between the delicately-natured, a man should retire into the offing, curl up in a ball, and imitate the prudent tactics of the opossum, which, when danger is in the air, pretends to be dead, frequently going to the length of hanging out crêpe and instructing its friends to gather round and say what a pity it all is.

It's a hell for the poor, in New York. An iron, grinding city. It frightens you. It's so big and hard and cruel. It takes the fight out of you.