Quotes about Survival

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

A people, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in order to live, I will not steal a name.

what can man do in hell, they sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope.

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.

There is one thing sadder than having no money to buy bread; that is having nothing with which to buy medicine.

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

So much of being a woman is telling lies, isn't it?" Victory asked. "It's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. Women think that survival depends on conformity. But for some women, conformity is death. It's a death to the soul. The soul," she said, "is a precious thing. When you live a lie, you damage the soul.

Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.

Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain.

We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is in our hands. If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.