Survival Quotes

I just didn't want to be a loser anymore...-Mitsuko Souma

~ Koushun Takami

If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most importent challenge of our times.

~ Wade Davis

I understood then why people were so often defeated by this world. Perhaps the web of support that they required just did not come into alignment when it had to. Or perhaps our culture lacked the channels by which to offer this support.

~ Guy Mankowski

You have to get angry in the face of bad situations. It's the most effective way to escape the bridles of despair.

~ R.j. Lawrence

I forced my weary body up from the ground, my eyes burning with rage. I'd had enough of nearly dying. I'd had enough of secrets and mysteries. I was filled to the brim with pain and misery. It had taken its toll on me. It was hard to hold on to the very things that made you human, when there was nothing good left inside of you. In fact, I no longer felt human. I didn't feel anything except anger. It was time to find Kellan.

~ Rose Wynters

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to live unless I turn someone's head into a bowl of gravy? I'm there. I don't feel bad about it. I don't think about it. It just is what it is. It's survival.

~ Robert Kirkman

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

~ Ernest Hemingway

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

~ Albert Einstein

If God's love encompasses the whole world and if everyone who does not believe in him will perish, then surely this question needs to be asked: When, after two thousand years, does God's plan kick in for the billion people he 'so loves' in China? Or for the 840 million in India? Or the millions in Japan, Afghanistan, Siberia, Egypt, Burma ·.. and on and on?Why would a God who 'so loved the world' reveal his message only to a tiny minority of the people on earth, leaving the majority in ignorance? Is it possible to believe that the Father of all Mankind would select as his Chosen People a small Middle Eastern nation, Israel, reveal His will exclusively to them, fight alongside them in their battles to survive, and only after their failure to reach out to any other group, update His plan for the world's salvation by sending His 'only begotten son,' not to the world but, once again, exclusively to Israel?

~ Charles Templeton

It is only by loving others that we can learn to live, living is rare nowadays...most people survive, that is all.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

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

~ Cormac Mccarthy

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . .The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Besides, morality is not about whether the human race survives, but about what kind of survival it gets. We marry; guppies don't. We don't eat our young; they do. Yet neither species is in danger of extinction.

~ J. Budziszewski

There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.

~ Bryant Mcgill

On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles - whatever one may choose to call them - we know: the best of us did not return.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

I understand that sometimes the only way we can survive our own memories is to shape them into a story that makes sense out of events that seem inexplicable.

~ Yeonmi Park

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else, it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

~ Criss Jami

Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now. A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.

~ Richard Adams

People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often, That was the only way to survive.

~ Frances Hardinge

He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true, but they were human.

~ William Golding

Innate human tendencies were meant to help us survive the wilderness, not make investment decisions.

~ Coreen T. Sol

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

~ Amit Kalantri

Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

~ Margaret Atwood

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

~ James Clavell

I've demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one is that I am capable of learning nothing from almost any experience, no matter how profound.

~ Tim Kreider

Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-survival evaluation. If we use the nervous ystem in a way which is against its survival structure, we must expect non-survival. Human history is short, but already we have astonishing records of extinction.

~ Alfred Korzybski

There were some things it was better not to know. They caused metaphysical anguish, for which there was as yet no remedy. When it was worried, the Tribe was inhibited and unable to act.It was very bad for everyone. The Tribe started to produce toxins that poisoned it. Its long-term survival was more important than short-term knowledge of the truth. If an eye had seen something that the brain knew was dangerous for the rest of the organism, it was better for the brain to put out that eye.

~ Bernard Werber

I don't understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don't. But Rita say forgit the WHY ME shit and git on to what's next.

~ Sapphire

And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.

~ Michael Grant

Making-out is one thing that won’t change even if civilization fizzles and humanity is reduced to two people. So each time Jack and I kiss, it’s as if we’re flipping off the jerks who destroyed our planet, as if we’re screaming at the top of our lungs… We know your secret.And we won’t be made invisible.

~ Caroline George

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

~ Rob Thomas

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food … just so they afford something to eat.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

~ Louis Zamperini

You want to survive in this universe? Then you are in a no-choice-positon! You have no choice but to be strong, you have no choice but to be hopeful, you have no choice but to be clever and challenger!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Prison is the only place, where Darwin's Theory of Evolution may seem to work. Survival of the fittest does only work, where the fittest is defined as the most loving.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Do you know the best way to get your body heat back? Ethan asked her as he looked her in the eyes and stroked her glossy brown hair. “The way to warm up is to lie next to another person. Naked.

~ Amanda Bretz