Survival Quotes

No longer do I fear. No longer do I let others define me. I know what I am. What I'm capable of. That I'm a girl... a woman who will fight to survive.

~ Sophie Jordan

I didn’t know yet how wanting to die could be a bloodsong in your body that lives with you your whole life. I didn’t know then how deeply my mother’s song had swum into my sister and into me. I didn’t know that something like wanting to die could take form in one daughter as the ability to quietly surrender, and in the other as the ability to drive into death head-on. I didn’t know we were our mother’s daughters after all.

~ Lidia Yuknavitch

Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Those are my bougainvillea—I got Victoria to plant them today, but I don;t know if they will survive. But Right now they have the appearance of survival, which is almost the same thing.

~ Zadie Smith

I don't need you because I want to save you. I want to save you because I need you to save me.

~ Anne L. Parks

Through the doorway to choice and hope were the saddest girls I have ever met. Not because someone beat them or because someone molested them or because they were poor or pregnant or even because they put needles in their arms or pills in their mouths or weed in their lungs or alcohol down their ever-constricting throats. They were the saddest girls I have ever met because every one of them had it in her to lose a shot at a self and become her mother.

~ Lidia Yuknavitch

We are humans first and the law always protects our basic human rights, but survival always remains a chance for any of us to go through hard times and make it through the day.

~ Auliq Ice

Roaches should never trust humans. We’re all doomed.

~ La Tisha Honor

How many close encounters with death can one person survive? At the age of 21, I had surpassed more than 10 such close encounters with death, which began when I was but 5 years of age. This enemy who has been hotly pursuing me for more than 16 years has no shame to his game at all. At least with me there were certain things I would’ve never done, and knowingly hurt a child was just one of them.

~ Drexel Deal

Anything could be endured, she had discovered, if she could only package the time into discrete little packets. She imagined taking the minutes, each one like a pellet, and wrapping them up - one minute, five minutes, fifteen, thirty. Once she had managed to survive a full hour, she could put the packets of time into a box, tie it with string, and push it down a conveyor belt. Just one more minute, one more hour, one more day.

~ Lynne Kutsukake

Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.

~ John Scalzi

Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize degree.

~ N.k. Jemisin

I have survived, but I have not been spared.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Sometimes you got to lie on the outside to keep your voice loud on the inside. We don’t owe the master the truth. He owes us. Nothing comes from the master. He is the thief in the night. He steals it all. And every time we have to say ‘yes sir’ and ‘no sir,’ he steals some more. But we can survive it, if we stay loud in here,” she said, throwing a fist hard against her breast.

~ Jonathan Odell

I knew the point wasn’t the victory, but pulling yourself together and crawling your way back. That was life.

~ Chloe Neill

Life is Ambition, not for Survive but for Be Better each second, for Superate your Records and to Get your Goals.All the rest is a Redundant Speech & a Boring Literature.You Decide the Direction of your Life, but remains Inspired and Assume all the Consequences.Complacency is Death”.

~ Fernando González Y Lozano

I have survived my first day of chemo and I like this feeling of survival. It’s alive and it’s right and it’s what I will make sure I feel every day for the rest of the life I have left. I make a promise to myself: While I’m dying, I will be completely fucking alive.

~ Glenn Rockowitz

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

~ Bill Bryson

Glenn! Most people want to die when they get the stomach flu. You threw up everything but your spleen and you just kept going.” My eyes well up and my breathing gets shallow. “For Danny.” “Nah. For you! You’re a tough motherfucker, Glenn.

~ Glenn Rockowitz

Adaptation is the key to survival.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't know if cats understand what their owners say, but they do have a strong survival instinct.

~ Manel Loureiro

Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as normal, if he were going to survive.

~ Michael Moorcock

Every new situation leads to new strategy for survival.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Loyalty is the key to our survival. Without it, we are just like them.

~ Tiana Dalichov

Perhaps the only happily ever after is to survive to tell the story

~ Kat Howard

Never apologize for how you chose to survive.

~ Deborah J. Monroe

... but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see. It is all luck, or providence, depending on what you believe.

~ Veronica Roth

The practice of lying is concerned with attempting to overlay a thin paper substitute atop the world that exists in order that it seem to suit your purposes. But the Swallow Man didn't need the world to suit him. He could make himself suit whatever world it pleased him to agree existed.

~ Gavriel Savit

Survival through denial. Works every time.

~ Carol Cassella

There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate

~ Alan Dean Foster

Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with other androids. The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism - with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it - could never have reconciled itself to.

~ Philip K. Dick

Life is mean! Don't lose your humour jacket. You'll really need it.

~ Nike Thaddeus

The way I came to miss the end of the world – well, the end of the world I had known for close on thirty years – was sheer accident: like a lot of survival, when you come to think of it.

~ John Wyndham

Surviving is about need. Living is about want.

~ Dan Groat

The Vikings could have been saved if they had borrowed survival strategies from the Inuit, but the only record we have of contact between the two peoples is the remark from a Viking settler that the Inuit bleed a lot when stabbed - an observation that hardly indicates a willingness to learn from their northern neighbors.

~ Johnjoe Mcfadden

Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.

~ Gena Showalter

Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed.

~ Mark Lawrence

Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.

~ T.k. Naliaka

I’m proud of them, in a way. My little gold stars for surviving. For thriving. They aren’t just mistakes.

~ A.r. Kahler

When I was sixteen, there was no one to count on but myself. Everyone in my family was taking care of themselves, surviving, but everyone forgot I was sixteen years old. I had never felt so lost and so alone in my life.

~ Grace Lozada