218 Quotes About Survival-instinct

But somehow, without me noticing it happening, I became someone who after every failure, rejection and mistake can pick myself up, dust myself off and start all over again. That life skill, the first one you need, came from my mother. So thanks to her, despite the rest of my upbringing and my awkward personality, I've survived.

[On a violent encounter with a boyfriend] Before I’ve even blinked, he’s snatched both my wrists, gripping them tightly together whilst dragging me back into the room.[...]I sense utter madness, blind rage and a very practiced hand, and decide with a calmness that is necessary for survival not to make a sound. Not to move a muscle. I go completely limp and acquiesce. You don’t argue with crazy. And I don’t want to give him one tiny reason to beat me to a pulp.

The possibility of annihilation brings out the best in us.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

You can survive life. Be strong.

Rule number 2: Double-tap.

God hates us," I said."Don't blame God for what ants have to do. We all get hungry. Congolese people are not so different from Congolese ants.""They have to swarm over a village and eat other people alive?""When they are pushed down long enough they will rise up. If they bite you, they are trying to fix things in the only way they know.

There was something about that man when he was all angry and dangerous that got my blood up. Sometimes my survival instincts are not what they should be.

Amazing what humans could do to one another when their survival instinct kicked in.