Surivival Quotes

“This past year I grew up to know hunger, grief, darkness, fear. I began to understand how lonely you can feel even when all you want is to be alone.”
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, This World We Live In

“Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of it, for it is not of the slightest use to them in the struggle for existence. Moreover, they and their organs of hearing were much older than man and his music. Their power of appreciating music is therefore an uncontemplated side-faculty of a hearing apparatus which has become on other grounds what we find it to be. So it is, I believe, with man. He has not acquired his musical hearing as such, but has received a highly developed organ of hearing by a process of selection, because it was necessary to him in the selective process ; and this organ of hearing happens also to be adapted to listening to music.”
― August Weismann

“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without truly living.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Path to Choquequirao: A Short Story Collection

“You have the heart of a warrior and you were designed to survive!”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“I imagine we're safe, happy, and truly in love. And I imagine that I can tell her without shame and stigma attached to my words. I imagine it because I don't know if I'll survive long enough to be able to live it.”
― Lynnette Brisia, Where Darkness Dwells

“The situation is unendurable, and yet he endures.”
― Jon Clinch, Marley

“Humanity seems to be stuck in a constant struggle between disorder and order, trying to find a balance between the two extremes, hoping to survive yet another day.”
― Ryan Gelpke, We Tragic Few