Survival Quotes

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of w...

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has resu...

Military men say that troops can stand twenty percent losses; more than that, they go to pieces. But...

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...

... but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no b...

Honor,” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for g...

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces th...

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of surviv...

This island has no secrets, not from me. It loves me, and I love it, and when I paint my face I'm a ...

Philosophy and religion - what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable wa...

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle ho...

I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. N...

Those are my bougainvillea—I got Victoria to plant them today, but I don;t know if they will survive...

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too...

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more tha...

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dea...

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made ...

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and se...

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public ...

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for abo...

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survi...

The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't just that you must be agile, or that you must b...

Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed...

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as lo...

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past ...

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early...

Idle Jeffrey, when asking his cousin for money: "I fear I have not a mercenary tendency." The Chance...

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon me...

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tig...

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things tha...

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of ...

Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each ...

and when we speak we are afraidour words will not be heardnor welcomedbut when we are silentwe are s...

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his ...

Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and plea...

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid t...

You are totally at the mercy of nature in this country, mate. It's just a fact of life.

It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.

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