Survival Quotes

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

Man cannot survive except through his mind.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive.

You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

You are not living, you are surviving.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

We didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.

Celebrate your strength. You’ve come so far in your practice and have survived 100% of your bad days⁠.