1,738 Quotes About Survival

When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators

There is this guilt that often accompanies being the first one to leave home. You will feel as though you shouldn’t have, so you will find a way to suffer, to not succeed. Your mind will trick you into believing it is a mistake to survive without the rest.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza."Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival.""So... your religion dies with you. How sad," Dorolow said, looking back from Horza to the screen. The Changer let the remark pass.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.

She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island--but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die.