Quotes about Survival
A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.
- Alice Walker
It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
- Alice Walker
And we kneeled down right on deck and gave thanks to God for letting us see the land for which our mothers and fathers cried — and lived and died — to see again
- Alice Walker
But she keep on. You got to fight. You got to fight. But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
- Alice Walker
I'm pore, black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!
- Alice Walker
it is the sense that something that was alive for a very long time is still alive. Not yet beaten into submission or oblivion by those who kill everything they touch with money.
- Alice Walker
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
- George Bernard Shaw
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
- Elie Wiesel
His [Ishmael's] hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
- Anonymous
Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
- Anonymous
Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
- Anonymous
When he was at the last gasp.
- Anonymous