Survival Quotes

It was all about survival. That's all it had ever been about.

~ Molly Looby

That's old world stuff. It's the ZA now.

~ Molly Looby

We survive, in the confusionof a life reborn beyond reason.

~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence was, the thought of violent death still filled her with horror.

~ Vasily Grossman

Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;Fear not the things thou suffer must;For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes.William BradfordPlymouth Colony Governor

~ Nathaniel Philbrick

Outside he hurried again, for he had several blocks to walk and the beer turned out to be no more than cool. He told himself he would remember next time to deal from the bottom - but the civil sirens sounded, surprising him with his silly private thought. That's what they blow them for. Thought is a national product, issued, like survival, on a day to day basis. There you go. Until tomorrow. When he understood this would be a long one today, he hurried on.

~ Douglas Woolf

I think the bravest people are not the ones brave enough to die. But the ones brave enough to live.And living is different with surviving.

~ Audrey Celia

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

~ Ace Frehley

Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of nutrients, you know what happens?The diploids break into haploids again. Solitary little haploids. Because, in a crisis, it's easier to survive as a single cell.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

~ B.g. Bowers

Some of the things that beat the shit out of you . . . can beat the bullshit out of you too.

~ Henry V. O'neil

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

~ Laura Hillenbrand

Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die…

~ Jocelyn Murray

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

~ Susanna Kaysen

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

~ Yann Martel

We each survive in our own way.

~ Sarah J. Maas

You don't drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there.

~ Edwin Louis Cole

Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.

~ Melina Marchetta

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

~ Michael Scott

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.

~ Frank Mccourt

Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.

~ Carrie Ryan

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

~ Dorothy Parker

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

~ Robertson Davies

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

~ Sun Tzu

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

~ Dave Pelzer

One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think.

~ Rebecca Mckinsey

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

~ Charles Bukowski

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

~ Tim O'brien

The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who had never lived.

~ Han Kang

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

~ Chris Cleave

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

~ Lemony Snicket

But part of surviving is being able to move on.

~ Alexandra Bracken

SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.

~ Jenny Holzer

The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are best at.

~ Susan Ee

Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they fin

~ Robert Kirkman

These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?

~ Tennessee Williams

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.

~ Mary Roach

Knowing that this is what it means to live. That this love, this need is what drives us to push and fight and build and grow. That as long as there's hope and love in this world, there will always be the living.

~ Carrie Ryan