Quotes about Survival

What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

A people, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in order to live, I will not steal a name.

what can man do in hell, they sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope.

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.

There is one thing sadder than having no money to buy bread; that is having nothing with which to buy medicine.

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.