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Paint ghosts over everything, the sadness of everything. We made ourselves cold. We made ourselves snow. We smuggled ourselves into ourselves. Haunted by each other’s knowledge. To hide somewhere is not surrender, it is trickery. All day the snow falls down, all night the snow. I try to guess your trajectory and end up telling my own story. We left footprints in the slush of ourselves, getting out of there.
— Richard Siken, War of the Foxes
Only Yeong-hye, docile and naive, had been unable to deflect their father's temper or put up any form of resistance. Instead, she had merely absorbed all her suffering inside her, deep into the marrow of her bones. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, In-hye could see that the role that she had adopted back then of the hard-working, self-sacrificing eldest daughter had been a sign not of maturity but of cowardice. It had been a survival tactic.
— Han Kang, The Vegetarian
Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds—staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
No longer do I fear. No longer do I let others define me. I know what I am. What I'm capable of. That I'm a girl... a woman who will fight to survive.
— Sophie Jordan, Unleashed
I didn’t know yet how wanting to die could be a bloodsong in your body that lives with you your whole life. I didn’t know then how deeply my mother’s song had swum into my sister and into me. I didn’t know that something like wanting to die could take form in one daughter as the ability to quietly surrender, and in the other as the ability to drive into death head-on. I didn’t know we were our mother’s daughters after all.
— Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Those are my bougainvillea—I got Victoria to plant them today, but I don;t know if they will survive. But Right now they have the appearance of survival, which is almost the same thing.
— Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Claudius, you're luckier than you realize. Guard your appointment jealously. Don't let anyone usurp it.""What do you mean, girl?""I mean that people don't kill their butts. They are cruel to them, they frighten them, they rob them, but they don't kill them.
— Robert Graves
I don't need you because I want to save you. I want to save you because I need you to save me.
— Anne L. Parks, Of Demons & Stones
Through the doorway to choice and hope were the saddest girls I have ever met. Not because someone beat them or because someone molested them or because they were poor or pregnant or even because they put needles in their arms or pills in their mouths or weed in their lungs or alcohol down their ever-constricting throats. They were the saddest girls I have ever met because every one of them had it in her to lose a shot at a self and become her mother.
— Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
We are humans first and the law always protects our basic human rights, but survival always remains a chance for any of us to go through hard times and make it through the day.
— Auliq-Ice
Roaches should never trust humans. We’re all doomed.
— La Tisha Honor
How many close encounters with death can one person survive? At the age of 21, I had surpassed more than 10 such close encounters with death, which began when I was but 5 years of age. This enemy who has been hotly pursuing me for more than 16 years has no shame to his game at all. At least with me there were certain things I would’ve never done, and knowingly hurt a child was just one of them.
— Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
Anything could be endured, she had discovered, if she could only package the time into discrete little packets. She imagined taking the minutes, each one like a pellet, and wrapping them up - one minute, five minutes, fifteen, thirty. Once she had managed to survive a full hour, she could put the packets of time into a box, tie it with string, and push it down a conveyor belt. Just one more minute, one more hour, one more day.
— Lynne Kutsukake, The Translation of Love
Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.
— John Scalzi, Old Man's War
Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize degree.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
I have survived, but I have not been spared.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
Sometimes you got to lie on the outside to keep your voice loud on the inside. We don’t owe the master the truth. He owes us. Nothing comes from the master. He is the thief in the night. He steals it all. And every time we have to say ‘yes sir’ and ‘no sir,’ he steals some more. But we can survive it, if we stay loud in here,” she said, throwing a fist hard against her breast.
— Jonathan Odell, The Healing
I knew the point wasn’t the victory, but pulling yourself together and crawling your way back. That was life.
— Chloe Neill, Midnight Marked
Life is Ambition, not for Survive but for Be Better each second, for Superate your Records and to Get your Goals.All the rest is a Redundant Speech & a Boring Literature.You Decide the Direction of your Life, but remains Inspired and Assume all the Consequences.Complacency is Death”.
— Fernando González y Lozano
I have survived my first day of chemo and I like this feeling of survival. It’s alive and it’s right and it’s what I will make sure I feel every day for the rest of the life I have left. I make a promise to myself: While I’m dying, I will be completely fucking alive.
— Glenn Rockowitz
You are totally at the mercy of nature in this country, mate. It's just a fact of life.
— Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country
Glenn! Most people want to die when they get the stomach flu. You threw up everything but your spleen and you just kept going.” My eyes well up and my breathing gets shallow. “For Danny.” “Nah. For you! You’re a tough motherfucker, Glenn.
— Glenn Rockowitz, Rodeo In Joliet
Adaptation is the key to survival.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I don't know if cats understand what their owners say, but they do have a strong survival instinct.
— Manel Loureiro, Apocalipsis Z: Los días oscuros
Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as normal, if he were going to survive.
— Michael Moorcock
Every new situation leads to new strategy for survival.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Loyalty is the key to our survival. Without it, we are just like them.
— Tiana Dalichov, Agenda 46
Perhaps the only happily ever after is to survive to tell the story
— Kat Howard, Roses and Rot
Never apologize for how you chose to survive.
— Deborah J. Monroe
... but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see. It is all luck, or providence, depending on what you believe.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
The practice of lying is concerned with attempting to overlay a thin paper substitute atop the world that exists in order that it seem to suit your purposes. But the Swallow Man didn't need the world to suit him. He could make himself suit whatever world it pleased him to agree existed.
— Gavriel Savit, Anna and the Swallow Man
Survival through denial. Works every time.
— Carol Cassella, Oxygen
There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate
— Alan Dean Foster, Star Wars - The Force Awakens
Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with other androids. The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism - with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it - could never have reconciled itself to.
— Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Life is mean! Don't lose your humour jacket. You'll really need it.
— Nike Thaddeus
The way I came to miss the end of the world – well, the end of the world I had known for close on thirty years – was sheer accident: like a lot of survival, when you come to think of it.
— John Wyndham
Surviving is about need. Living is about want.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
The Vikings could have been saved if they had borrowed survival strategies from the Inuit, but the only record we have of contact between the two peoples is the remark from a Viking settler that the Inuit bleed a lot when stabbed - an observation that hardly indicates a willingness to learn from their northern neighbors.
— Johnjoe McFadden, Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.
— Gena Showalter, A Mad Zombie Party
Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Fools
Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.
— T.K. Naliaka, Iron Mixed with Sand Salt without Memory
Defeat, if you survive it, should mean time for reflection.
— Ob Nixilis (Magic: The Gathering)
I’m proud of them, in a way. My little gold stars for surviving. For thriving. They aren’t just mistakes.
— A.R. Kahler
When I was sixteen, there was no one to count on but myself. Everyone in my family was taking care of themselves, surviving, but everyone forgot I was sixteen years old. I had never felt so lost and so alone in my life.
— Grace Lozada, Evolving to Grace
Surviving Is the only warWe can afford
— Margaret Atwood
In river rescues, members of the Kansas City Fire Department rescue squad yell profanity-laced threats at victims before they get to them. If they don't, the victim will grab on to them and push them under the water in a mad scramble to stay afloat. "We try to get their attention. And we don't always use the prettiest language," says Larry Young, a captain in the rescue division. "I hope I don't offend you by saying this. But if I approach Mrs. Suburban Housewife and say, 'When I get to you, do not fucking touch me! I will leave you if you touch me!' she tends to listen.
— Amanda Ripley, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life.
— Marjorie M. Liu, Shadow Touch
Every few days the sea delivers us gifts, and I am convinced that there is something of the divine nature in this process. Often I have prayed for a jacket, a bucket, or a handsaw, but instead I find one single flip-flop. Many times it has left my heart bitter, but then I find some useful purpose for my found treasure. Maybe the sea doesn’t give me what I want, but what I need.
— Jennifer Arnett, Day One: A Novella
Behold those times re-created bythe brutal power of sunlit images,the light of life’s tragedy.The walls of the trial, the fieldof the firing squad; and the distantghost of Rome’s suburbs in a ring,gleaming white in naked light.Gunshots: our death, our survival.
— Pier Paolo Pasolini, Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, The: A Bilingual Edition
This island is a hard place to survive and I fear that it has made everything resistant to the cruel hand of death.
— Jennifer Arnett, Day One: A Novella
We don’t vanish without a trace. We are not like animals, content with burrows in the ground. We are not very skilled at survival without clothing or tools. Our feet are soft, our skin is easily cooled, and our stomachs are too weak to drink water straight from a stream. We must create in order to survive. We build cities, aqueducts, and shields, for we must in order to have an edge over the beasts of the field. And so, wherever humans have tread their covered feet, their path never vanishes without a trace.
— Jennifer Arnett, Day One: A Novella
The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, toeven the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.
— Stephen Crane
I can survive either love or insanity. But not both. And you bring me both.
— VaZaki Nada
So does anyone have a good survival strategy, or is there no hope for getting out of this nightmare?’ asks the Colonel.‘We came up with a big, fat zero. I don’t know how we’re going to survive the blood hunt,’ says Dee.‘That wasn’t the nightmare I was referring to,’ says the Colonel. ‘Death by stupid comments is what I was talking about.
— Susan Ee, End of Days
I watch the beautiful performance with an ache in my chest.Then, just when I can’t stand the sadness anymore, a dancer floats out from the side of the stage. A dancer in ragged clothes, filthy and half starved. He’s not even in ballet shoes. He’s just barefoot as he glides out to take his place in the dance.The other dancers turn to him, and it’s clear that he is one of them. One of the lost ones. By the look on their faces, they weren’t expecting him. This is not part of the practiced show. He must have seen them onstage and joined in.Amazingly, the dance continues without a missed beat. The newcomer simply glides into place, and the final dancer who should have danced solo with her missing partner dances with the newcomer.It is full of joy, and the ballerina actually laughs. Her voice is clear and high, and it lifts us all.
— Susan Ee, End of Days
People open bookstores because they want their souls back.(from "Two Women" published in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House)
— Elizabeth Tallent
If I’m super lucky, I might be able to fight him off and maybe even the warrior after him, but it’s not a long-term survival strategy. By long-term, I mean the next ten minutes.We’re screwed.
— Susan Ee, End of Days
Sir, we have a saying in our country: ‘There’s no government, like no government.
— James Wesley, Rawles, Land of Promise
Keeping secrets is a survival tactic.
— Kaede Lazares, Pathline
Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live accordingly to cope with it
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
A politician is a man in his natural state
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
If you survive, you've got to live with the guilt, and that's more difficult than looking someone in the eye and pulling the trigger. Trust me. I've done both.
— Sara Grant, Half Lives
Now right here, where the borders of South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya all come together, there’s a patch of land, perhaps 14 or 15 thousand square kilometers—about the size of Montenegro—that is contested. This is just some unpopulated marginal cattle grazing country that is a hot soggy sponge in the rainy season and then a scorching hot griddle in the dry season. There are just a few villages, and most of those are just seasonally occupied.
— James Wesley, Rawles, Land of Promise
The Lord made what was once the desolation of the Palestine Mandate fertile again, as modern-day Israel, and if He so wills it, He will do the same for the Ilemi Triangle, for his own glory. The desert will bloom.
— James Wesley, Rawles, Land of Promise
BirthLonely entering in to the new world with a small seed of LOVE,Somewhere in the depth of the HEART.SurvivalStruggling with every step in all aspects and creating a lot of MEMORIESto achieve our amazing GOALS and to get recognized.DeathAt the demise, where we pass away from this SPLENDID world like a treeof LOVE in the entire HEART. 	 It’s all about, designing a seed of love beautifully in to a tree of love			 before we pass away.LIFE
— Yash
I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.
— Jen Calonita, Broadway Lights
All of the wars in the world are fueled by power struggles either at individual, national or international levels
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
They only let us live in millions for the sake of the economy. I don't know what will happen by the time they figure out how to run the economy without the people
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Being able to endure is sometimes the key to survival.
— Eraldo Banovac
I chased my prey…there was blood oozing out from the pain of the weaker… my incisors tasted the deliciousness of flesh! Lying down under the shade of age-old tree I knew- you are nothing but the contentment of the deliciousness - the very meaning of mortal life! It was when I myself became the prey of hunger, seeing my own flesh bleeding from the mouth of my successor, I knew, you were more than that what I knew in my senses, my hunger!
— Preeth Nambiar, The Voyage to Eternity
I cannot help, but when danger is at hand remember always that I am here to stand -- or fall -- with you.
— Harry Stoker
Do you know what it means to be a survivor? It means that not only do you have to live through things, you have to live with them as well. The second part is much harder and sometimes it takes the rest of your life to learn how to do it. But at least you have the rest of your life…
— Josephine Angelini, Firewalker
I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.
— Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites
We were all survivors—every last one of us who limped our way out to the sidewalks that afternoon and spit in Death’s cold face.
— Cat Winters, In the Shadow of Blackbirds
Nobody wants to admit that mermaids who survive the dangers of the ocean can still be defeated by their own pain." He links his fingers through mine. He squeezes my hand until I look back. "A mermaid's heart is the most fragile thing in the sea. You've somehow managed to keep yours beating. The shield doesn't matter. What matters is you're a survivor.
— Emm Cole, Keeping Merminia
But for the overcrowded, for those who have little or nothing except, sometimes, courage and love, hope works differently. Hope is then something to bite on, to put between the teeth. Don't forget this. Be a realist. With hope between the teeth comes the strength to carry on even when fatigue never lets up, comes strength, when necessary, to choose not to shout at the wrong moment, comes the strength above all not to howl. A person, with hope between her or his teeth, is a brother or sister who commands respect.
— John Berger, Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
It is actually a good survival strategy to manipulate twist, and reorganize the truth in a way that is more consistent with what we can psychologically tolerate.
— Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
Be the cockroach
— Amber Kizer, A Matter of Days
Survival is the foundation of endurance
—  complete triumph is the endgame.
Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji and the barrios of the Philippines, do not come to these islands empty-handed, or craven in spirit, or afraid to starve. There is no food here. In these islands there is no certainty. Bring your own food, your own gods, your own flowers and fruits and concepts. For if you come without resources to these islands you will perish... On these harsh terms the islands waited.
— James A. Michener, Hawaii
The dangers that we face are part of the process, now well underway, of the unification of the planet--in language, culture, science, and commerce. They are both driven by the identical technological advances--this critical and delicate time coincides with the widespread availability of nuclear weapons. At the present rate of change, it seems likely that in the period between now and 2061, the turning point for the human species will have been reached.If we survive until then, our passage to the next apparition of Halley's Comet should be comparatively easy. That perihelion passage will be in March 2134, when the comet will make an unusually close encounter with the Earth. It will come as close as 0.09AU or 14 million kilometers, less than half the distance of the 1910 encounter. It will then be brighter than the brightest star. If there are those to do the commemorating, the years 2061 and 2134 should be celebrated for the courage, intelligence, and common purpose of a species forced by urgent necessity to come to its senses.
— Carl Sagan, Comet
Because you never know when the day before ... Is the day before. Prepare for tomorrow.
— Bobby Akart
Eight months in the woods have hardened me, or at least firmed up my beliefs that if a man’s going to fend for himself, then he needs to leave his credit card at home.
— Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
Can anyone survive without faith, however its labeled? No matter how you live, it seems, you need faith to get by, to get ahead.
— Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Fight back, Laia. For Darin. For Izzi. For every Scholar this beast has abused. Fight. A scream bursts from me, and I claw at Marcus’s face, but a punch to my stomach takes the wind out of my lungs. I double over, retching, and his knee comer up into my forehead. The hallway spins, and I drop to my knees. Then I hear him laughting, a sadistic chuckle that stokes my defiance.Sluggishly, I throw myself at his legs. It won’t be like before, like during the raid when I let that Mask drag me about my own house like some dead thing.This time, I’ll fight. Tooth and nail, I’ll fight.
— Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.
— Robert Tew
Unlike its human counterparts, an army of zombies is completely independent of support. It will not require food,ammunition, or medical attention. It will not succumb to panic, desertion, or out-and-out mutiny. Like the virus that gave it life, this undead force will continue to grow, spreading across the body of this planet until there is nothing left to devour. Where would you go? What would you do?
— Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
The right thing is a luxury for rich and sheltered people. For the rest of us, the only right thing is staying out of trouble and surviving as best we can.
— Susan Ee, World After
Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.
— V.C. Andrews, Pearl in the Mist
The main benefit of innovation for your organization is not competitive advantage. It is survival.
— Paul Sloane, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team
... the burrowing wasp, which in order to provide a supply of fresh meat for her offspring after her own decease, calls in the science of anatomy to amplify the resources of her instinctive cruelty, and, having made a collection of weevils and spiders, proceeds with marvellous knowledge and skill to pierce the nerve-centre on which their power of locomotion (but none of their other vital functions) depends, so that the paralysed insect, beside which her egg is laid, will furnish the larva, when it is hatched, with a tamed and inoffensive quarry, incapable either of flight or of resistance, but perfectly fresh for the larder...
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Love shouldn't feel like the Hunger Games. There should not be a constant struggle for survival.
— Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
I am sure Cinderella was really smart. Even if the fairy had not appeared, she would have found some way out of their clutches. She would have had to; it’s called survival.
— Gita V. Reddy, Cinderella's Escape
Your fear ain’t nothin but gum on the bottom of your shoe. The residue from some past experience is all it is. You can scrape the gum off or it can serve as a reminder of your testimony of survival.
— Suzette R. Hinton
We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earth’s final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance.
— Rick Yancey
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
— Stephen Hawking
In this atmosphere Where you have to go perennially crazy only to survive, Which auspicious moment should I choose to become mad?
— Suman Pokhrel
We’re not a people worth saving, plain and simple. We’re completely beyond that—both the undead and the few still living. Yeah, 'living.' Some life, huh? But it’s the only life we could ever possibly live if we want to stay alive another day. It’s our life that terrifies me.
— Bryant A. Loney, Exodus in Confluence
She taught me that life goes on, and that I had a choice. To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained.
— Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder
Some part of me believed, unassailably, and wordlessly and perhaps with a flick of justice, that they had sent me away because they were afraid of me. Like some monstrously deformed child who should never have lived beyond infancy, or a conjoined twin whose other half died under the knife, I had- simply by surviving-become a freak of nature.
— Tana French, In the Woods
The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise
—  it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it.
It’s odd to suddenly discover you’re happy right in the middle of a moment. Usually, you don’t recognize happiness until it’s over and you’re looking back on it.
— Wodke Hawkinson, Betrayed: Alternate Ending
Only the wrong survive.
— Joe Buckler, Later That Night
True, t is only individuals who starve, but what security has the working-man that it may not be his turn tomorrow? Who assures him employment, who vouches for it that, if for any reason or no reason his lord and master discharges him tomorrow, he can struggle along with those dependant upon him, until he may find some one else 'to give him bread'? Who guarantees that willingness to work shall suffice to obtain work, that uprightness, industry, thrift, and the rest of the virtues recommended by the bourgeoisie, are really his road to happiness? No one. He knows that every breeze that blows, every whim of his employer, every bad turn of trade may hurl him back into the fierce whirlpool from which he has temporarily saved himself, and in which it is hard and often impossible to keep his head above water. He knows that, though he may have the means of living today, it is very uncertain whether he shall tomorrow.
— Friedrich Engels
If you're getting chased by a lion, you don't need to run faster than the lion, just the people running with you. - Tim Ferris
— David Nihill, Do You Talk Funny? 7 Comedy Habits to Become a Better (and Funnier) Public Speaker
The good thing about problems is that they all have solutions.
— Tag Cavello
A tiger of a rather and a wolf of a brother. Sandwiched between the two, I wonder what my tomorrow holds.
— Kazuo Koike, Path of the Assassin, Vol. 3: Comparison of a Man
I saw a bullfrog snap a tiny bird off a reed once, swallowing it just like that, grinding the singing thing to foodstuff in its slimy belly, and the witnessing of that act produced in me an insight: that this moment of terror before resignation was possibly the only ascertainable moment of truth we can ever know in life.
— Carl Watson
Come on! We've had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-that's my motto. I'm counting on bieng faster than them.
— Cinda Williams Chima
For those that dare to stand upagainst those that want to knock you down." The dedication from Worst Case Scenario: Bug Out - Book 2.
— G. Allen Mercer, Worst Case Scenario Book 2: Bug Out
The human body cannot survive being in temperatures over 200 degrees centigrade for more than a few moments, especially in the fast moving current of a surge. Trying to breathe in the dense cloud of hot ash in the absence of oxygen would lead to unconsciousness in a few breaths, as well as causing severe burns to the respiratory tract... On the other hand, survival is possible in the more distal parts of a surge if there is adequate shelter to protect against the surge flow and its high temperature, as well as the missiles (rocks, building materials) entrained in the moving cloud of material.
— Encylopaedia of Volcanoes
Until they rip us apart, and even then, I'll fight.
— Lindsay Cummings, The Murder Complex
Dissociation can enable us to withstand pain and loss under which we would otherwise break. It enables us to survive and pull through. But, a habit of continual dissociation – especially after the trauma has passed – leads to the shut-in feeling I was experiencing. While I imagined I was being strong in the face of pain, in reality, I was merely hiding.
— Sarah Hackley, Women Will Save the World
You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen
By honoring and responding to your natural and essential requirements for sleep, food, water and movement, you will rise out of the realm of survival into the world of fulfillment.
— Miranda J. Barrett, A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
You try to tell yourself that you've been lucky, most incredibly lucky, and usually that works because it's true. Sometimes it doesn't work, that's all. Then you cry.
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Your shield must surpass your weaponry.
— Toba Beta
This isn't a game," he repeats. It's real. What you do here determines your survival. He pauses. "And the survival of every other person on this planet.I laugh.He doesn't.  And that tells me he's either serious or seriously crazy. Please let him be crazy.
— Eve Silver
Up the coast a few miles north, in a lava reef under the cliffs, there are a lot of rock pools. You can visit them when the tide is out. Each pool is separate and different, and you can, if you are fanciful, give them names, such as George, Charlotte, Kenny, Mrs. Strunk. Just as George and the others are thought of, for convenience, as individual entities, so you may think of a rock pool as an entity; though, of course, it is not. The waters of its consciousness - so to speak - are swarming with hunted anxieties, grim-jawed greeds, dartingly vivid intuitions, old crusty-shelled rock-gripping obstinacies, deep-down sparkling undiscovered secrets, ominous protean organisms motioning mysteriously, perhaps warningly, toward the surface light. How can such a variety of creatures co-exist at all? Because they have to. The rocks of the pool hold their world together. And, throughout the day of the ebb tide, they know no other.
— Christopher Isherwood
Growing up in a cathedral precinct, what did I know of the absurdities of communism, of how brave man and women in bleak and remote penal colonies were reduced to thinking day by day of nothing else beyond their own survival?
— Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth
And for God's sake, if you need to shoot make sure to release the safety ,” he murmured, as we moved across the front, careful to stick to the shadows as often as we could. So far, I hadn't seen anyone, not even zombies. It wasn't uncommon for a straggler to come along, every now and then. Lucky for us, we were remote enough that we hadn't had any major issues with any hordes locating us. The men were quick to dispatch any zombies that hung around, not willing to take the risk that somehow they could communicate with each other. Not to mention, the zombies were strong and fast. It was better to end them, rather than to risk them one day killing one of us.
— Rose Wynters, Phase Three: Devastate
It criticizes me,but my 2nd quest give me deserve a second chance but it is my own survival,My friend.
— Kurt Reiner Suarez
Consider bonsaiThere but for constricting bowlWould be a giant.
— Dianne Bates, The Girl in the Basement
Louie was furious at the sharks. He had thought that they had an understanding:The men would stay out of the sharks' turf - the water - and the sharks would stay off of theirs - the raft. That the sharks had taken shots at him when he had gone overboard, and when the raft had been mostly submerged after the strafing, had seemed fair enough. But their attempt to poach men from their reinflated raft struck Louie as dirty pool. He stewed all night, scowled hatefully at the sharks all day, and eventually made a decision. if the sharks were going to try to eat him, he was going to try to eat them.
— Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
All around us, Karachi kept moving
— Kamila Shamsie, Kartography
Even I recognize that I'm not being a proper role model right now. But I need you to understand. As your mother, it's my duty to protect you from the evil intentions of whoever did this...and I'll become a demon if I have to. That's all there is to it.
— Ryukishi07, Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch, Vol. 2
Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
— Joanne Harris, Chocolat
I hurt all the damn time because my stupid heart has decided for one reason or another that it can't survive without being next to yours. -Chase
— Rachel Van Dyken, Elect
Trying to become something in a world where everyone wants to become something is a thing that needs God's programming.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The bright blue sky remained cloudless, and the aquamarine ocean still crashed gently onto the white sand beach, but the scene was suddenly warped. Twisted, as I processed Thad's words.
— Lynne Matson, Nil
door I thought about life and how it resembled a ladder. Do you ever feel that way? Like life is one big uphill climb and there are always more people and circumstances tripping us and trying to pull us back down the ladder, while very, very few people ever stop to give us a hand up. “Fend for yourselves ,” seems more like the motto of the world. Survival of the fittest doesn’t exactly leave room for encouragement.
— Marilyn Grey, When the City Sleeps
You die." Thad's voice was heavy; the fire was gone. "It's like everyone has a personal window of time that the gateway to Nil stays open for them. It's always one year. Exactly three hundred sixty-five days. If you miss that window, you're done.
— Lynne Matson, Nil
Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?
— Sherry Shahan, Ice Island
Multiculturalism destroys the true diversity which nature requires for the continued evolution of the species through the natural selection process of differentiation and competition between specialized populations within a group.
— Billy Roper, Hasten the Day: The First Year of the Balkanization of America
Don't fuck around thinking you could have done it better. There is no better. There's just not being dead.
— Nick Harkaway, Tigerman
They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews prove successful, the new state would be filled with dancers and musicians, but especially dancers, for dancing like nothing else says: I am still alive.
— Mark Helprin, Refiner's Fire
They had survived, when so many had not. And no one ­else could understand what it was like to bear it, unless they had lost as much.
— Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
Conclusion: I don't need the water reclaimer at all. I'll drink as needed and dump my waste outdoors. Yeah, that's right, Mars, I'm gonna piss and shit on you. That's what you get for trying to kill me all the time.
— Andy Weir, The Martian
The NSA?""Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery."Venkat shrugged. "It's amazing how much red tape gets cut when everyone's rooting for one man to survive.
— Andy Weir, The Martian
Survival of the generic.
— Siobhan Vivian, The List
Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.
— Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
I have scars. No one alive today doesn't. But Alex's scars have to be much deeper than mine.
— Susan Beth Pfeffer, This World We Live In
He found, using fifty stones to keep track, that he could easily remember the names of all fifty states, and he knew the capitols of a lot of them. He knew his times tables all the way up to twelves, and he knew when they'd signed the Declaration of Independence and when John Glenn landed on the moon.But he was keenly aware that he didn't know how to tell if nuts were good to eat, or what berries will make you sick, or what mushrooms were poisonous, and he slowly began to wonder why not one person had ever taught him anything useful.
— Michael Montoure, Slices
Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal.” The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly as she cinched her pack.
— Teresa Tsalaky
The history of the own that is grasped on too small a scale and the foreign that is treated too badly reaches an end at the moment when a global co-immunity structure is born, with a respectful inclusion of individual cultures, particular interests and local solidarities. This structure would take on planetary dimensions at the moment when the earth spanned by networks and built over by foams, was conceived as the own, and the previously dominant exploitative excess as the foreign. With this turn, the concretely universal would become operational. The helpless whole is transformed into a unity capable of being protected. A romanticism of brotherliness is replaced by a cooperative logic. Humanity becomes a political concept. Its members are no longer travellers on the ship of fools that is abstract universalism, but workers on the consistently concrete and discrete project of a global immune design. Although communism was a conglomeration of a few correct ideas and many wrong ones, its reasonable part - the understanding that shared life interests of the highest order can only be realized within a horizon of universal co-operative asceticisms - will have to assert itself anew sooner or later. It presses for a macrostructure of global immunizations : co-immunism.
— Peter Sloterdijk, Je moet je leven veranderen
Wondering why you survived don't help you survive
— Jeannette Walls (Author)
An old horse, an old bird, an old man, an old tree, they all represent a great survival in the jungle of cosmos; they deserve to be applauded and respected!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last - the power to refuse our consent. So we must certainly wash our faces without soap in dirty water and dry ourselves on our jackets. We must polish our shoes, not because the regulation states it, but for dignity and propriety. We must walk erect, without dragging our feet, not in homage to Prussian discipline but to remain alive, not to begin to die.
— Primo Levi, If This Is a Man / The Truce
The only true dead are those who have been forgotten.
— Jason S. Hornsby, Eleven Twenty-Three
You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in, in the hope that you might be lucky, and the knife has actually been staunching the blood. You want to know the conventional medical wisdom? The conventional medical wisdom is that you keep the knife in. Really.
— Nick Hornby, How to Be Good
Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.
— Terry Pratchett, The Carpet People
Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
Everybody’s gotta have somebody to step on. Makes ’em feel important.
— Juliann Garey, Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who don’t have to.
— James   Hubbard
The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held captive—be that from a person, a government, or one’s inner self—the scars are deeply engraved into one’s psyche, and there’s no remedy for the soul. Many have the misconception that freedom equals happiness forever and ever.That’s a wicked delusion.
— Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
Terror builds inside him. The reality that tonight will be his last leaves a sour taste in his mouth. The Tainted will eat him, or on a more terrifying note—if that’s even possible—maybe turn him into one of them. He’d rather die. But first, he’ll take as many of those bastards out as he can. He throws his pack into the throng and jerks the blade from his belt. With a thudding heart, he slices through them. Blood arcs over him, onto him.
— Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
Slowly, he lifts the flashlight. Her shorts are torn and frayed, her shirt ripped from chest to naval, exposing her black bra and dirty stomach. And then he raises the light so it reflects off her face, off the crimson tears streaming from the girl’s eyes. Her boney hands fly up to protect her face, and her head tilts sharply as she hisses.
— Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
Life isn't a promise
—  it's a present
When the tears were gone I washed my face and walked back to the store to finish my shopping. Because even when your heart is breaking you still need bread and Rice Krispies and orange juice.
— R.J. Keller, Waiting For Spring
Look now,' Vesna's mother continued, 'what do you know, a civil war might break out any minute: Serbs would fight with Croats, Czechs would fight with Slovaks, Hungarians would fight with Jews. how can you be sure of anything?''But, Mother, if this happens, then it will such big trouble that nobody would think about a shortage of pantyhose,' protested Vesna.'You'd be surprised, my dear, to know that people have to live and survive during wars, too. Besides, how do you think we survived communism?
— Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.
— Philippa Gregory, The Queen's Fool
Quotes from BEGINNINGS: Where A Life Begins..........Life did not improve for Maria; it just became slowly less unbearableAlia’s mother was more than twice her age. Not yet old enough to be expected to die of old age but now no longer a woman with a future; except that which can be lived through her children and theirs. Her head told her that there was no justice but her heart was unconvinced.She was relieved that her soul no longer weighed as heavily as it had before, or maybe she had learned how to bear its weight a little more skillfully.At first she thought it was her son's spirit that spoke to her. But he was gone; and slowly she realized that the voice was coming from within her but was not her own. It was stronger and braver and, perhaps, even crueller, than she could be. It could only be coming from within her womb. It had to be the voice of her unborn child."Maybe there is really no justice in the world; just survival and revenge," she said.
— Gary N. Heilbronn
Use your strength, but always remember that any strengthmay become a weakness.
— Kateryna Kei, Raven Boy
Luck often comes to those who are brave.
— Kateryna Kei, Raven Boy
As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.""As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's left of my manicure," Petra said.
— Libba Bray
Vehicular Darwinism based on survival of the quickest.
— Raymond L. Atkins, The Front Porch Prophet
The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.
— Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed
— Rachel Bach, Fortune's Pawn
No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.
— Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and toward the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go, too! I want to go, too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but it hurts
— Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.
— Steven Magee
No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact that people stopped existing because of me.
— Clint Van Winkle, Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Civilization is the commercialization of survival.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I would close my eyes and dream of something strong, dream of horses exploding, rising into the air, their hearts beating survive, survive, survive.
— Sherman Alexie, First Indian on the Moon
The winds have a force so terrific as to eclipse anything previously known in the world. We have found the kingdom of blizzards. We have come to an accursed land.
— Lennard Bickel, Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.
— Sarah  Winter, Snowbound
Freedom is a subset of survival.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Heterosexuality is the traditional way of expressing love and romance; the act of enjoyment between opposite sexes. It is not only for the purpose of enjoyment and pleasure, but also the human general survival. Whilst homosexuality is the freedom of enjoyment and pleasure from any means and ends.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage.
— Jocelyn  Murray, Khu: A Tale of Ancient Egypt
Please challenge me becausewhenever I am challenged, I learn away to survive and a brillianttechnique to fight.
— Rohan Nath
Survival often demands our courage.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
The brutalities of wolves are not for enjoyment and pleasure
—  they are all just for the survival.
Leadership is a Requirement for Survival and a Prerequisite for Success.
— Noel DeJesus, 44 Days of Leadership
When you live in my house, you learn to be fine with whatever you come across. It's the only way to stay sane in insanity.
— Katlyn Charlesworth, The Tomorrows
Human beings are not the central focus of the world. We may dominate the world, but just like all other creatures we have to fit in and struggle to survive.
— Wendo L.
It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
Molly learned long ago that a lot of the heartbreak and betrayal that other people fear their entire lives, she has already faced. Father dead. Mother off the deep end. Shuttled around and rejected time and time again. And still she breathes and sleeps and grows taller. She wakes up every morning and puts on clothes. So when she says it's okay, what she means is that she knows she can survive just about anything.
— Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train