Survival Quotes

Trying to become something in a world where everyone wants to become something is a thing that needs God's programming.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The bright blue sky remained cloudless, and the aquamarine ocean still crashed gently onto the white sand beach, but the scene was suddenly warped. Twisted, as I processed Thad's words.

~ Lynne Matson

door I thought about life and how it resembled a ladder. Do you ever feel that way? Like life is one big uphill climb and there are always more people and circumstances tripping us and trying to pull us back down the ladder, while very, very few people ever stop to give us a hand up. “Fend for yourselves ,” seems more like the motto of the world. Survival of the fittest doesn’t exactly leave room for encouragement.

~ Marilyn Grey

You die. Thad's voice was heavy; the fire was gone. It's like everyone has a personal window of time that the gateway to Nil stays open for them. It's always one year. Exactly three hundred sixty-five days. If you miss that window, you're done.

~ Lynne Matson

Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?

~ Sherry Shahan

Multiculturalism destroys the true diversity which nature requires for the continued evolution of the species through the natural selection process of differentiation and competition between specialized populations within a group.

~ Billy Roper

Don't fuck around thinking you could have done it better. There is no better. There's just not being dead.

~ Nick Harkaway

They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews prove successful, the new state would be filled with dancers and musicians, but especially dancers, for dancing like nothing else says: I am still alive.

~ Mark Helprin

They had survived, when so many had not. And no one ­else could understand what it was like to bear it, unless they had lost as much.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Conclusion: I don't need the water reclaimer at all. I'll drink as needed and dump my waste outdoors. Yeah, that's right, Mars, I'm gonna piss and shit on you. That's what you get for trying to kill me all the time.

~ Andy Weir

The NSA?Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery.Venkat shrugged. It's amazing how much red tape gets cut when everyone's rooting for one man to survive.

~ Andy Weir

Survival of the generic.

~ Siobhan Vivian

Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.

~ Marian Keyes

12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have scars. No one alive today doesn't. But Alex's scars have to be much deeper than mine.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

He found, using fifty stones to keep track, that he could easily remember the names of all fifty states, and he knew the capitols of a lot of them. He knew his times tables all the way up to twelves, and he knew when they'd signed the Declaration of Independence and when John Glenn landed on the moon.But he was keenly aware that he didn't know how to tell if nuts were good to eat, or what berries will make you sick, or what mushrooms were poisonous, and he slowly began to wonder why not one person had ever taught him anything useful.

~ Michael Montoure

Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal.” The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly as she cinched her pack.

~ Teresa Tsalaky

The history of the own that is grasped on too small a scale and the foreign that is treated too badly reaches an end at the moment when a global co-immunity structure is born, with a respectful inclusion of individual cultures, particular interests and local solidarities. This structure would take on planetary dimensions at the moment when the earth spanned by networks and built over by foams, was conceived as the own, and the previously dominant exploitative excess as the foreign. With this turn, the concretely universal would become operational. The helpless whole is transformed into a unity capable of being protected. A romanticism of brotherliness is replaced by a cooperative logic. Humanity becomes a political concept. Its members are no longer travellers on the ship of fools that is abstract universalism, but workers on the consistently concrete and discrete project of a global immune design. Although communism was a conglomeration of a few correct ideas and many wrong ones, its reasonable part - the understanding that shared life interests of the highest order can only be realized within a horizon of universal co-operative asceticisms - will have to assert itself anew sooner or later. It presses for a macrostructure of global immunizations : co-immunism.

~ Peter Sloterdijk

We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last - the power to refuse our consent. So we must certainly wash our faces without soap in dirty water and dry ourselves on our jackets. We must polish our shoes, not because the regulation states it, but for dignity and propriety. We must walk erect, without dragging our feet, not in homage to Prussian discipline but to remain alive, not to begin to die.

~ Primo Levi

The only true dead are those who have been forgotten.

~ Jason S. Hornsby

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in, in the hope that you might be lucky, and the knife has actually been staunching the blood. You want to know the conventional medical wisdom? The conventional medical wisdom is that you keep the knife in. Really.

~ Nick Hornby

Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.

~ Terry Pratchett

Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.

~ Angelica Hopes

Everybody’s gotta have somebody to step on. Makes ’em feel important.

~ Juliann Garey

Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who don’t have to.

~ James Hubbard

The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held captive—be that from a person, a government, or one’s inner self—the scars are deeply engraved into one’s psyche, and there’s no remedy for the soul. Many have the misconception that freedom equals happiness forever and ever.That’s a wicked delusion.

~ Laura Kreitzer

Terror builds inside him. The reality that tonight will be his last leaves a sour taste in his mouth. The Tainted will eat him, or on a more terrifying note—if that’s even possible—maybe turn him into one of them. He’d rather die. But first, he’ll take as many of those bastards out as he can. He throws his pack into the throng and jerks the blade from his belt. With a thudding heart, he slices through them. Blood arcs over him, onto him.

~ Laura Kreitzer

Slowly, he lifts the flashlight. Her shorts are torn and frayed, her shirt ripped from chest to naval, exposing her black bra and dirty stomach. And then he raises the light so it reflects off her face, off the crimson tears streaming from the girl’s eyes. Her boney hands fly up to protect her face, and her head tilts sharply as she hisses.

~ Laura Kreitzer

When the tears were gone I washed my face and walked back to the store to finish my shopping. Because even when your heart is breaking you still need bread and Rice Krispies and orange juice.

~ R.j. Keller

Look now,' Vesna's mother continued, 'what do you know, a civil war might break out any minute: Serbs would fight with Croats, Czechs would fight with Slovaks, Hungarians would fight with Jews. how can you be sure of anything?''But, Mother, if this happens, then it will such big trouble that nobody would think about a shortage of pantyhose,' protested Vesna.'You'd be surprised, my dear, to know that people have to live and survive during wars, too. Besides, how do you think we survived communism?

~ Slavenka Drakulić

Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.

~ Philippa Gregory

Use your strength, but always remember that any strengthmay become a weakness.

~ Kateryna Kei

Luck often comes to those who are brave.

~ Kateryna Kei

Vehicular Darwinism based on survival of the quickest.

~ Raymond L. Atkins

The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.

~ Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed

~ Rachel Bach

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

~ Art Spiegelman

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and toward the end, his wife started crying and screaming, I want to go, too! I want to go, too! And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: We are all going.

~ John Green

you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but it hurts

~ Julio Cortázar

The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

~ Steven Magee