quotations about survival
It is a tricky word. Survival can denote a fingertip emergence to catch breath among the forces that threaten to overwhelm us, or a triumphant bursting forth into new life.
BARBARA GLASSON
A Spirituality of Survival: Enabling a Response to Trauma and Abuse
Man thinks, and he has used thinking as a weapon for his struggle to survive. He could survive because he could think; otherwise he is more helpless than any animal, more weak than any animal. Physically, it was impossible for him to survive. He could survive because he could think. Because of thinking, he has become the master of the earth.
OSHO
The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within
Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.
CARRIE RYAN
The Dark and Hollow Places
That's the trouble with pain: it's never just a flesh wound. It's raw. It burns. It wakes you up drenched in sweat and sends you to sleep in a flood of tears. And to be a survivor is to wrestle that pain in every waking moment.
BRANDON J. WOLF
"Pulse victim: How I learned the meaning of survival", CNN, June 11, 2017
Extreme survival scenarios are interesting, entertaining and unnecessary. Civilization is at a point where "struggle" can be eliminated from the human vocabulary. The systems in place to serve our needs and wants are unprecedented. We have no problems that can't be overcome, no flaws that can't be fixed.
LARRY CLARK
"Survival is an unnecessary struggle", Hickory Record, June 1, 2017
Life's a race
That I am gonna win
Yes, I am gonna win
And I'll light the fuse
And I'll never lose
And I choose to survive
Whatever it takes
MUSE
"Survival", The 2nd Law
I will survive because life is nothing but a test-drive.
ELAINE HUGHES-MCTEAR
Life is Like a Box of Chocolates
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
DORA RUSSELL
The Religion of the Machine Age