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...

She lives for this-the fight, the battle for survival. She actually enjoys it.

When you live in my house, you learn to be fine with whatever you come across. It’s the only way to stay sane in insanity.

And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as looking out for himself and watching his tongue and not saying...

To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good...

Survival of the generic.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don’t have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn’t mean they apply to you.

I miss people, you know? I miss actually living. I want to have a purpose in my life, but I don’t. I’m just existing, and I don’t know how long I can continue it.

We survive, in the confusionof a life reborn beyond reason.

Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn’t found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan.

Why should he be spared?”Someone ought to be.’ And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

Our chances of survival were entirely dependent on our ability and willingness to dominate others.

Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

There were two choices in life. Survive or succumb. And most people weren’t even conscious of the path they chose. Because they chose for all the wrong reasons. Love, principles, dreams, desire. The world hadn’t...

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.

Our group pressed west on what was left of Highway 93, toward the pass leading to Las Vegas. Sand covered the road in loose drifts so deep the horses’ hooves sank into them. The metal...

The brutalities of wolves are not for enjoyment and pleasure; they are all just for the survival.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

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

Life is warped. I’m just in sync.

SimpleComplex systems can arisefrom simple rules.It’s notthat we want to survive,it’s that we’ve been druggedand made to actas if we dowhile all the whilethe sea breaksand rolls, painlessly, under.If we’re not copying it,we’re lonely.Is this...

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.

He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.

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

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on...

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

The eye is always half-full.

Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.

We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.

No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact that people stopped existing because of me.

They want us dead,’ said Bond calmly. ‘So we have to stay alive.

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.

You know,” Marion said, “I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot but she was so strong, so compassionate. I asked her how she could...

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

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

John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man’s soul in his body long past...

All around us, Karachi kept moving

Only the wrong survive.

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man’s got to fake just to stay alive.

But hey this was the FAYZ, where all you could really hope was to delay the pain.

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it...

I don’t even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn’t choose right, and she hadn’t, things...

Dünyada her felaketin içinden en az zararla sıyrılmanın yolu hayata uymak, muhite uymak, hiç sivrilmemektir.

That kind of imagination is why we’re not dead.

I’ve always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you’re over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make...

Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf ’s tail as Peter did, and make...

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.