Survival Quotes

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the wor...

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals ...

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and w...

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been pre...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival firs...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival firs...

These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.

Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke kn...

I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more s...

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only ro...

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who deci...

The history of the own that is grasped on too small a scale and the foreign that is treated too badl...

You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was opt...

Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with ...

A law of survival, Ragle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Ad...

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not: we...

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few...

We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we ...

The conviction that life has a purpose is rooted in every fibre of man, it is a property of the huma...

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himsel...

Quite rapidly Etta became acquainted with the realities of poverty in one of its loneliest forms -- ...

There seemed no answer. He wasn't resigned to anything, he hadn't accepted or adjusted to the life h...

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body ...

The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i...

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Claudius, you're luckier than you realize. Guard your appointment jealously. Don't let anyone usurp ...

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily di...

When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, th...

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open gr...

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily di...

When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, th...

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open gr...

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily di...

When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, th...

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open gr...

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily di...

When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, th...

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open gr...

As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravin...

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinar...

Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the ti...

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.

Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.

And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned...

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase w...

I would close my eyes and dream of something strong, dream of horses exploding, rising into the air,...

The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indiff...

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

You try to tell yourself that you've been lucky, most incredibly lucky, and usually that works becau...

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can ch...

People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche - effete...

In this atmosphere Where you have to go perennially crazy only to survive, Which auspicious moment s...

If quick, I survive.If not quick, I am lost.This is "death.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.

We could do it, you know.""What?""Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we coul...

Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her...

These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. ...

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently...

Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very ...

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be ...

We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pa...

If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do thin...

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.