SURVIVAL QUOTES
quotations about survival
Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.
BETTY SMITH
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Fight Club
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
CHRIS CLEAVE
Little Bee
I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.
SUSANNA KAYSEN
Girl, Interrupted
I'll never be an angel
I'll never be a saint, it's true
I'm too busy surviving
MADONNA
"Survival"
Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.
E. C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips and Quotes: For Speakers, Writers, Editors, Preachers and Teachers
Survivors can't always choose their methods.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Dragon Blood
The problem with survival of the fittest is the corpse at your feet.
WATERDOWN
"Corporate Identity"
Survival is a dying art.
BARRY DAVIES
Survival Is a Dying Art
Preparation is what we have left when the plan falls apart. Acquiring the skills necessary for survival is a part of this preparation. However, it takes much more than the knowledge and skills to build shelters, find food, make fires and travel without the aid of standard navigational devices to live successfully through a survival or evasion situation. Some people with little or no survival training have managed to survive life-threatening circumstances. Some people with survival training have not used their skills and have died. A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude of the people involved. Having survival skills and proper preparation are important. Having the will to survive is essential.
U. S. ARMY CORPS, NAVY, AND AIR FORCE
U.S. Military Pocket Survival Guide: Plus Evasion & Recovery
Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Whatever gets you through the night.
It's alright. It's alright.
JOHN LENNON
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened ... You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed. Race hatred, violence, idolatries--they still flourish.
ELIE WIESEL
"Will Hatred Ever End?", The Watchtower, June 15, 1995
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
There are as many ways to survive as there are survivors.
AMANDA ROBB
Good Housekeeping, April 2009
I survived, but my friends didn't. It wasn't until days later that a sense of dread and guilt set in. Was it my fault? Could I have saved Juan and Drew? And what of my place as a survivor? There I stood, uninjured, but broken. I had no outward sign of suffering -- I didn't walk with a limp or need physical therapy. But somehow, I was still hurting. I kept asking myself: as a physically unscarred survivor, did I even deserve a voice at all?
BRANDON J. WOLF
"Pulse victim: How I learned the meaning of survival", CNN, June 11, 2017
If needs are not fundamentally different from wants, however, then the contention that flourishing is a matter of wants and survival is a matter of needs collapses.
TARA SMITH
Viable Values
You finally reached the shore, survived the storm
Now you're bare and cold, the sea was warm
METALLICA
"Poor Twisted Me"
Survival often feels like an indignity.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO & CHUCK HOGAN
The Fall
Only the strong survive
You better wake up from that fantasy
I think it's time that you opened your eyes
Don't be afraid to see what you might see
THE TUBES
"Only the Strong Survive"