Survival Quotes

“Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.”
― Velma Wallis, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

“I do care. That's why I hunt them. But if you've seen what I have, then you learn to deal with the murders and disappearances. You learn to push it aside and move on. The other life isn't here anymore. This new world has its own rules. Survival of the fittest is one of them. If you're hoping for kindness and pity, don't hold your breath.”
― Susanne Winnacker, The Other Life

“Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.”
― Velma Wallis, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

“Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.”
― John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

“I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But (...) we must see all scars as beauty. (...) Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“Whenever there is love beyond boundaries ....
Whenever trust flows deeper than oceans ....
Nevertheless, a Trial is born ....
You pass that trial, sacred you shall be .... if you don't, your are immortal !!!!”
― M.W.Latif

“Surviving is a basic thing. Getting by. Staying alive in whatever way we can. It doesn't mean we make right choices or drive fine cars or have good jobs. It means we found a way not to die. I survived.”
― Carolyn Wall

“We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“The climber, like a fox which is hard-pressed, should always have one more trick in his bag.”
― Whipplesnaith, The Night Climbers of Cambridge Limited edition by Whipplesnaith (2007) Hardcover

“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, Wall to Wall