…oh boo hoo, everyone’s life was hard, and if you’d survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.

Here, just like in my own world, popularity was power; survival required the occasional sacrifice of a damaged limb—or a damaged cousin—and alliances were crucial.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.

I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence —...

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

Knowing that this is what it means to live. That this love, this need is what drives us to push and fight and build and grow. That as long as there’s hope and love in...

Remember: You are no one. You have no name. You do not speak, you do not look at them, you do not volunteer for anything. You work, bot not so hard they notice you. Gizela....

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...

If you don’t hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.

This is life…Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak–the ones too small or too foolish to fight back–die in...

I’m sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.

Molly learned long ago that a lot of the heartbreak and betrayal that other people fear their entire lives, she has already faced. Father dead. Mother off the deep end. Shuttled around and rejected time...

The two men’s eyes widened when they saw me charging toward them. One of them dropped his hold on Grey, letting him sway dangerously over the edge. Both men reached for their guns, but it...

‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it’s...

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...

Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the...

The word ‘experienced’ often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.

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

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

Fear is the venom impact of predator sting, causing prey not to be focus on the survival.

This is a new method to understand elephant behavior and help ensure their survival.

It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays…most people survive; that is all.

I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami’s and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven’t witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the...

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to...

I just have to make it to the Tuichi’ I mumbled to myself, ‘I just have to make it to the Tuichi’.Alone, deep in the jungle, so small and insignificant, pitted against nature, still I...

[I]t was in the pairs that the prisoners kept alive the semblance of humanity concluded Elmer Luchterhand, a sociologist at Yale who interviewed fifty-two concentration camp survivors shortly after liberation.Pairs stole food and clothing for...

There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.

We were all survivors—every last one of us who limped our way out to the sidewalks that afternoon and spit in Death’s cold face.

There are casualties in war. Those who don’t make it back to a place of sound hopes and dreams. Some take on their demons alone. They are deceived into fearlessness and trampled by the hooves...

Quotes from BEGINNINGS: Where A Life Begins……….Life did not improve for Maria; it just became slowly less unbearableAlia’s mother was more than twice her age. Not yet old enough to be expected to die of...

What I understand now about survival is that something in you dies. You don’t become a survivor intact. Survival’s cost is always loss.

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.

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it

This life is like a game, so you better play it right!

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It’s not so strange. Where there’s still life, there’s still hope. What happens is up to God.

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.

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken…a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don’t even notice.

I come from a plane that fell into the mountains. I am Uruguayan. We have been walking for ten days. I have a friend up here who is injured. In the plane there is fourteen...

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!...

Your shield must surpass your weaponry.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

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?

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.

He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

I will give you a few guarantees of my own, Mukthar. I guarantee that before the sun sets, even if you win, even if my cold, dead body is lying on the field, you will...

He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone needed the same driving ambition that had fueled him. That had led him...