Survival Quotes

The right thing is a luxury for rich and sheltered people. For the rest of us, the only right thing is staying out of trouble and surviving as best we can.

~ Susan Ee

Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.

~ V.c. Andrews

The main benefit of innovation for your organization is not competitive advantage. It is survival.

~ Paul Sloane

... the burrowing wasp, which in order to provide a supply of fresh meat for her offspring after her own decease, calls in the science of anatomy to amplify the resources of her instinctive cruelty, and, having made a collection of weevils and spiders, proceeds with marvellous knowledge and skill to pierce the nerve-centre on which their power of locomotion (but none of their other vital functions) depends, so that the paralysed insect, beside which her egg is laid, will furnish the larva, when it is hatched, with a tamed and inoffensive quarry, incapable either of flight or of resistance, but perfectly fresh for the larder...

~ Marcel Proust

Love shouldn't feel like the Hunger Games. There should not be a constant struggle for survival.

~ Amanda Mosher

I am sure Cinderella was really smart. Even if the fairy had not appeared, she would have found some way out of their clutches. She would have had to; it’s called survival.

~ Gita V. Reddy

Your fear ain’t nothin but gum on the bottom of your shoe. The residue from some past experience is all it is. You can scrape the gum off or it can serve as a reminder of your testimony of survival.

~ Suzette R. Hinton

We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earth’s final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance.

~ Rick Yancey

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

~ Stephen Hawking

In this atmosphere Where you have to go perennially crazy only to survive, Which auspicious moment should I choose to become mad?

~ Suman Pokhrel

We’re not a people worth saving, plain and simple. We’re completely beyond that—both the undead and the few still living. Yeah, 'living.' Some life, huh? But it’s the only life we could ever possibly live if we want to stay alive another day. It’s our life that terrifies me.

~ Bryant A. Loney

She taught me that life goes on, and that I had a choice. To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained.

~ Louise Penny

Some part of me believed, unassailably, and wordlessly and perhaps with a flick of justice, that they had sent me away because they were afraid of me. Like some monstrously deformed child who should never have lived beyond infancy, or a conjoined twin whose other half died under the knife, I had- simply by surviving-become a freak of nature.

~ Tana French

The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise, it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it.

~ Scott A. Butler

It’s odd to suddenly discover you’re happy right in the middle of a moment. Usually, you don’t recognize happiness until it’s over and you’re looking back on it.

~ Wodke Hawkinson

Only the wrong survive.

~ Joe Buckler

True, t is only individuals who starve, but what security has the working-man that it may not be his turn tomorrow? Who assures him employment, who vouches for it that, if for any reason or no reason his lord and master discharges him tomorrow, he can struggle along with those dependant upon him, until he may find some one else 'to give him bread'? Who guarantees that willingness to work shall suffice to obtain work, that uprightness, industry, thrift, and the rest of the virtues recommended by the bourgeoisie, are really his road to happiness? No one. He knows that every breeze that blows, every whim of his employer, every bad turn of trade may hurl him back into the fierce whirlpool from which he has temporarily saved himself, and in which it is hard and often impossible to keep his head above water. He knows that, though he may have the means of living today, it is very uncertain whether he shall tomorrow.

~ Friedrich Engels

If you're getting chased by a lion, you don't need to run faster than the lion, just the people running with you. - Tim Ferris

~ David Nihill

The good thing about problems is that they all have solutions.

~ Tag Cavello

A tiger of a rather and a wolf of a brother. Sandwiched between the two, I wonder what my tomorrow holds.

~ Kazuo Koike

I saw a bullfrog snap a tiny bird off a reed once, swallowing it just like that, grinding the singing thing to foodstuff in its slimy belly, and the witnessing of that act produced in me an insight: that this moment of terror before resignation was possibly the only ascertainable moment of truth we can ever know in life.

~ Carl Watson

Come on! We've had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-that's my motto. I'm counting on bieng faster than them.

~ Cinda Williams Chima

For those that dare to stand upagainst those that want to knock you down. The dedication from Worst Case Scenario: Bug Out - Book 2.

~ G. Allen Mercer

The human body cannot survive being in temperatures over 200 degrees centigrade for more than a few moments, especially in the fast moving current of a surge. Trying to breathe in the dense cloud of hot ash in the absence of oxygen would lead to unconsciousness in a few breaths, as well as causing severe burns to the respiratory tract... On the other hand, survival is possible in the more distal parts of a surge if there is adequate shelter to protect against the surge flow and its high temperature, as well as the missiles (rocks, building materials) entrained in the moving cloud of material.

~ Encylopaedia Of Volcanoes

Until they rip us apart, and even then, I'll fight.

~ Lindsay Cummings

Dissociation can enable us to withstand pain and loss under which we would otherwise break. It enables us to survive and pull through. But, a habit of continual dissociation – especially after the trauma has passed – leads to the shut-in feeling I was experiencing. While I imagined I was being strong in the face of pain, in reality, I was merely hiding.

~ Sarah Hackley

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.

~ Cinda Williams Chima

By honoring and responding to your natural and essential requirements for sleep, food, water and movement, you will rise out of the realm of survival into the world of fulfillment.

~ Miranda J. Barrett

You try to tell yourself that you've been lucky, most incredibly lucky, and usually that works because it's true. Sometimes it doesn't work, that's all. Then you cry.

~ Stephen King

Your shield must surpass your weaponry.

~ Toba Beta

Up the coast a few miles north, in a lava reef under the cliffs, there are a lot of rock pools. You can visit them when the tide is out. Each pool is separate and different, and you can, if you are fanciful, give them names, such as George, Charlotte, Kenny, Mrs. Strunk. Just as George and the others are thought of, for convenience, as individual entities, so you may think of a rock pool as an entity; though, of course, it is not. The waters of its consciousness - so to speak - are swarming with hunted anxieties, grim-jawed greeds, dartingly vivid intuitions, old crusty-shelled rock-gripping obstinacies, deep-down sparkling undiscovered secrets, ominous protean organisms motioning mysteriously, perhaps warningly, toward the surface light. How can such a variety of creatures co-exist at all? Because they have to. The rocks of the pool hold their world together. And, throughout the day of the ebb tide, they know no other.

~ Christopher Isherwood

Growing up in a cathedral precinct, what did I know of the absurdities of communism, of how brave man and women in bleak and remote penal colonies were reduced to thinking day by day of nothing else beyond their own survival?

~ Ian Mcewan

And for God's sake, if you need to shoot make sure to release the safety ,” he murmured, as we moved across the front, careful to stick to the shadows as often as we could. So far, I hadn't seen anyone, not even zombies. It wasn't uncommon for a straggler to come along, every now and then. Lucky for us, we were remote enough that we hadn't had any major issues with any hordes locating us. The men were quick to dispatch any zombies that hung around, not willing to take the risk that somehow they could communicate with each other. Not to mention, the zombies were strong and fast. It was better to end them, rather than to risk them one day killing one of us.

~ Rose Wynters

It criticizes me,but my 2nd quest give me deserve a second chance but it is my own survival,My friend.

~ Kurt Reiner Suarez

Consider bonsaiThere but for constricting bowlWould be a giant.

~ Dianne Bates

Louie was furious at the sharks. He had thought that they had an understanding:The men would stay out of the sharks' turf - the water - and the sharks would stay off of theirs - the raft. That the sharks had taken shots at him when he had gone overboard, and when the raft had been mostly submerged after the strafing, had seemed fair enough. But their attempt to poach men from their reinflated raft struck Louie as dirty pool. He stewed all night, scowled hatefully at the sharks all day, and eventually made a decision. if the sharks were going to try to eat him, he was going to try to eat them.

~ Laura Hillenbrand

All around us, Karachi kept moving

~ Kamila Shamsie

Even I recognize that I'm not being a proper role model right now. But I need you to understand. As your mother, it's my duty to protect you from the evil intentions of whoever did this...and I'll become a demon if I have to. That's all there is to it.

~ Ryukishi07

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

~ Joanne Harris

I hurt all the damn time because my stupid heart has decided for one reason or another that it can't survive without being next to yours. -Chase

~ Rachel Van Dyken