Survival Quotes

I came here to get there. Do I have any fucking clue what there is? Hell the fuck no. I'm just trying to live in a world of the dead.

~ Robert Kirkman

While complying can be an effective strategyfor physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those incontrol. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get youthrough the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

~ Daniel H. Pink

There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited.

~ Cary Caffrey

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

~ Alan W. Watts

Escape was not our goal since it was so unrealistic. What we wanted was to survive, to live long enough to tell the world what had happened in Buchenwald.

~ Jack Werber

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.

~ Richard Matheson

She lives for this-the fight, the battle for survival. She actually enjoys it.

~ Lauren Oliver

And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as looking out for himself and watching his tongue and not saying the wrong thing, the thing that might get him killed. About the dignity of the lost, about losing, and how it cleansed the soul to accept defeat, and about letting go, avoiding the trap of holding on too tightly to what you wanted, and about abandonment in general, and in particular fatherlesness, the lessness of fathers, the lessness of the fatherless, and the best defenses of those who are less against those who are more: inwardness, forethought, cunning, humility and good peripheral vision. The many lessons of lessness. The lessening from which growing could begin.

~ Salman Rushdie

I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.

~ Orson Scott Card

Such is the privilege of survival: to be allowed to fashion the means that fit our ends, to cobble together a narrative that reveals (as by the divine light of illumination) the predestined arc of our days. This is no small gift. With it we can neutralize all but the greatest losses, reduce even the greatest bastards to nothing more than bit actors in the drama of our lives, put on this earth for the sole purpose of forwarding our cause. Blessed are those who can believe their own stories.

~ Mark Slouka

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

~ Orson Scott Card

Survival justifies any means.

~ Toba Beta

The secret of survival is a defective imagination.

~ John Banville

They're both a bit cavalier about the whole thing at first; more than anything, they seem to think that it's going to be a lot of fun. Which it is, of course, but mostly in the way a plane crash is fun to reminisce about after you survive it.

~ Josh Gates

He held his head, and he cried for them, and he did not melt into the sea but sat, aching, in the glowing moonlight-for in the end our bodies know only how to carry on surviving.That is our strength, and our tragedy.

~ Nick Lake

... Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?”“Those are brave words, Tiresias.”“New parents can’t afford to be anything but brave, Eddie.

~ Joe Mckinney

We'll fight,' I interrupt. 'And if we die, that's how it ends. Fighting. With purpose.

~ Summer Lane

Outside, the dogs whine over the wind. They sense the wolves - they sense the wild. It calls to them, like it calls to me, and I wonder sometimes if we are the only ones who hear it.

~ Summer Lane

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not: we who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them, who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic and above all survivors…we’re not that way from perversity, and we cannot just let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

~ Piers Anthony

If you don't have the physical conditioning necessary to get your self out of trouble, the skills in this book won't do you much good.

~ Clint Emerson

Why waste the space on a stack of half-read books and periodicals, when you could turn your nightstand into a tactical toolbox?

~ Clint Emerson

In the end, what matters is this: I survived.

~ Gail Honeyman

I don't think there are any true heroes. Just people who ignore their survival instincts long enough to do something incredibly foolhardy.

~ Lauren James

There's nothing special about this place, he thinks. We all forget. Then we forget what we forgot. And that's how we survive.

~ Adam Sternbergh

Every time the train stopped at a station, we would all hold our breath, making sure not a single sound drifted out of the closed windows. We were hungry and our throats parched. From inside the train we heard voices travelling up and down the platform, saying, “Hindu paani,” and, from the other side, “Muslim paani.” Apart from land and population, even the water had now been divided

~ Aanchal Malhotra

Your own hands falling out to catch youbefore you hit the ground. All the waysyou save yourself even when youdon't want to.Love is the way your body fights tokeep you alive.Day after day after day.

~ Darshana Suresh

I realize I was having a conversation in my head that was about three responses ahead of Paul's innocuous quip. I tend to do that -- imagine conversations before they happen. That's why people sometimes have a tough time understanding me and I them.

~ Alex Morel

We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together.

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

You get up each morning and do what you can to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters.

~ Marty Rubin

He considered going for his hammer, which lay just out of reach, or maybe diving for Ganelon instead, since waking the warrior was probably his best hope of survival.

~ Nicholas Eames

Partial skinning may be less painful, perhaps delay unpleasantness, how pain set in breasts, back, and belly offers less agony, some reprieve, while the skinning of fingers, nose, cheeks and lips feels like spears. . .

~ Cathleen Margaret

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

~ John Green

I know that my buddy Jorgeson was a real American hero. I wish that he had lived to be something else, if not a painter of pictures then even some kind of fuckup with a factory job and four divorces, bankruptcy petitions, in and out of jail. I wish he had been that. I wish he had been anything rather than a real American hero.

~ Thom Jones

ThatNeed to knowYour enemyTo surviveIs bitter.

~ Maud Sulter

We get up in the morning and do what we must to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters.

~ Marty Rubin

After more than five years, some agents might be tempted to become complacent. Catherine would never become complacent. It was one of the reasons she survived when others had been arrested and hanged.

~ Daniel Silva

The old, defiant chant rose in her mind: If I want, I will learn. If I want, I will fight. If I want, I will live. And I want. And I will. This was going to be fun.

~ P.c. Hodgell

Coffee first. Save the world later.

~ Caroline George

Something deep in the human soul awakens as things fall apart. Something in the soul knows that everything in this world can become lost. And something in the soul knows how to survive periods of devastation, disorientation and loss. Descent and falling is the way of the soul from its beginning. We each fell from the womb of life when the waters of the inner sea broke and it came time for us to breathe on our own.

~ Michael Meade

You look at me and judge me. And I just want to ask, for what? I am in full control. No one has a gun to my head. Why can't this be my profession,one I have chosen for myself? I tell you prostitutes are professional in their skills and practise it like the vocation of true apostles- and why shouldn't they? What's so different from the accountant or the doctor selling his time? I ended up in this profession in the same way someone might end up being a lawyer because the couldn't get into engineering or dentistry,or because they couldn't get into medicine, or even a banker who grew up telling everyone they want to be a soccer player. They do those things because that was what was available for heir talents and their circumstances at that time. But do we pity them? No, because that's lif-

~ Panashe Chigumadzi