114 quotes found
“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”
“Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat ...”
“The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival”
“If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.”
“It was all about survival. That's all it had ever been about.”
“That's old world stuff. It's the ZA now.”
“Outside he hurried again, for he had several blocks to walk and the beer turned out to be no more than cool. He told himself he would remember next time to deal from the bottom - but the civil sire...”
“If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.”
“Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.”
“Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.”
“mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”
“A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
“Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything”
“Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.”
“Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.”
“The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable g...”
“You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor.""I don't want to survive it.""I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have...”
“We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?”
“One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.”
“I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping...”
