Survival Quotes

One day you're waiting for the sky to fallThe next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all

The dangers that we face are part of the process, now well underway, of the unification of the plane...

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in mat...

what you werewill not happen again.the tigers have found meand I do not care.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I chea...

Up the coast a few miles north, in a lava reef under the cliffs, there are a lot of rock pools. You ...

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths...

The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never hav...

Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

Professional Ketman is reasoned thus: since I find myself in circumstances over which I have no cont...

To live, is to suffer. To survive, well, that's to find meaning in the suffer.

It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true...

Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the surviv...

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environmen...

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, ...

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it...

Survival often demands our courage.

It's only life. We all get through it.

Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man...

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me perso...

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't ...

In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each o...

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to ma...

No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more ...

He’s afraid," Graber said."Yes, naturally. But he’s a good dog.""And a man-eater.""We’re all that.""...

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it

The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the st...

The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, sin...

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepare...

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die...

True, t is only individuals who starve, but what security has the working-man that it may not be his...

Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the la...

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Without world unification the species would destroy itself by the enlarged powers that had come to i...

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we ea...

I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of ...

Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds—st...

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality on...

When did my youth slip away from me? I suddenly thought. It was over, wasn't it? Seemed just like ye...

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly alwa...

Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza."Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the...

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

Growing up in a cathedral precinct, what did I know of the absurdities of communism, of how brave ma...

...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brut...

Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning.

Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever...

The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two abso...

Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji and the barrios of the Philippines, ...

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, f...

You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don'...

I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon ...

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger aroun...

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happine...

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

The secret of survival is a defective imagination.

But for the overcrowded, for those who have little or nothing except, sometimes, courage and love, h...

Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technolog...

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burde...

Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassi...

Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequea...

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is commu...

Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be close...

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, a...

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My...

Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more: the belief that any patterns exist. ...

Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or...

you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but i...

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security syst...

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigration ev...

Success is survival.

What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!"I wish I knew!" t...

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the g...

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.""As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's le...

I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we w...

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence...

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

... the burrowing wasp, which in order to provide a supply of fresh meat for her offspring after her...

Surviving Is the only warWe can afford

Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: ...

Sauve qui peut. To survivewe’d all turn thiefand rascal, or so says the fox,with her coat of an eleg...

She’s a lean vixen: I can seethe ribs, the slytrickster’s eyes, filled with longing and desperation,...