Quotes about Survival
He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest towards the open beach.
- William Golding
People lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
- Maya Angelou
Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.
- Thomas Becket
The world's poorest people use the cheapest available fuels - dung and twigs and even leaves.
- Abhijit Banerjee
The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
- Tertullian
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
- Maya Angelou
But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
- Audre Lorde
It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
- Ambrose of Milan
Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.
- Elie Wiesel
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
- Napoleon Hill