Top Survival Quotes

My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspirati...

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

Survival Definition

(n.) A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.

(n.) Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known.

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words...

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them? There's something attractive about all those people being gone, about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging...

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten mysel...

Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strengt...

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 with it; b...

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

After we deal and heal...NOT A A SHRED OF EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT LIFE IS SERIOUS.....Jan Marshall

How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live a...

Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Your discipline or lack of discipline will protect you from or expose you to disaster. Practice discipline. Be consistent.

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

Life is mean! Don't lose your humour jacket. You'll really need it.