Survival Quotes - Page 10

You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot but she was so strong, so compassionate. I asked her how she could be the way she was, and you know what she told me?"

Hadley shook her head.

"She said, 'You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.

They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.

One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment.

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.

In a society that prioritizes man’s health, a cleaner is more important than a lawyer.

War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.

We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

He’s afraid," Graber said.

"Yes, naturally. But he’s a good dog."

"And a man-eater."

"We’re all that."

"Why?"

"We are. And we think, just like that dog, that we are still good. And just like him we are looking for a bit of warmth and light and friendship.

The past might hurt but don't run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.

We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.

We’ll never survive!”
“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.