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Quotes about Survival

People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.
- Stephen Jay Gould
If the dinosaurs are any indication, there's a place in our pantheon for the extinct. My son has a blue plushy allosaurus he calls Spot-Spot, with whom he often sleeps.
- Lydia Millet
When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.
- Andy Andrews
Surviving means being born over and over.
- Erica Jong
You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.
- Oprah Winfrey
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
- JRR Tolkien
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
- Cormac McCarthy
Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.
- William James
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
- Albert Camus
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
- Elie Wiesel