Quotes about Survival

I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don't eat. And I like to eat.

The doctors told me' -- her voice sang on a confidential note-- 'that if any man alive had done the consistent drinking that I have, he would have been physically shattered, my dead, and in his grave--long in his grave.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity.

from natural selection's point of view, feelings would make great labels for thoughts, labels that say things like "high priority," "medium priority," "low priority.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.