Quotes about Survival
Think back for a moment on your own history -- not just where you were born or where you grew up, but the circumstances that contributed to your being right here, right now. What were the moments along the way that wounded or scared you? Chances are, you've had a few. But here's what's remarkable: You are still here, still standing.
- Oprah Winfrey
Only love can keep anyone alive...
- Oscar Wilde
The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
- Cormac McCarthy
If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be? It would be this: the world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.
- Cormac McCarthy
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
- Cormac McCarthy
The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.
- Cormac McCarthy
Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?
- Cormac McCarthy
I dont know what happens to country.
- Cormac McCarthy
In the grueling light that passed for day...
- Cormac McCarthy
The next day on the far side of the mountain we encountered the two lads that had deserted us. Hangin upside down in a tree. They'd been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man's appearance.
- Cormac McCarthy
Are you okay? he said. The boy nodded. Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
- Cormac McCarthy
The next day on the far side of the mountain we encountered the two lads that had deserted us. Hangin upside down in a tree. They'd been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man's appearance.
- Cormac McCarthy