#Survival Quotes

“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”

“You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live”

“They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.”

“In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.”

“In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.”

“A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.”

“Without victory there is no survival!”

“Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.”

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”

“You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.”

“But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?”

“I almost die for food, and let me have it!”

“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”

“If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.”

“We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.”

“I absolutely believe the species, the planet and the Universe can't survive if we function on hate.”

“If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer”

“Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.”

“We insist, it seems, on living.”

“People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.”

“I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.”

“Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.”

“Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.”

“Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.”

“There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.”

“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”

“I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.”

“We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's like, "I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's like, "I'm hungry.”

“We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.”

“Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up...Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up.”

“She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.”

“Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over. But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out.”

“Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!”

“You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.”

“No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.”

“I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.”

“The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.”

“I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.”

“All B.S. aside, it all comes down to... we got to survive. I mean, even warriors put their spears down on Sundays. We got to survive here in this country... 'cause I'm not going back to Africa. We got to survive here. And for us to survive here-White folks, Black folks, Korean folks, Mexican folks, Puerto Ricans-we got to understand each other.”

“All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.”

“Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.”

“I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?”

“The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.”

“I think you really have to tap into your sense of humor in order to survive.”

“Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.”

“Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.”

“It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need”

“The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow”

“I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.”