Surviving Quotes

We think we learn by growing a plant but we can't know if it's just surviving or truly living? We really don't know anything about a plant until we kill it.

I've never felt like this before, with anyone. It's against the rules of surviving.

Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.

As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers - just haven't made it and haven't had a chance.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.

It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.

I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving.

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists.

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you’re here, you’re surviving; this moment is okay.

Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.

I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

You are not living, you are surviving.

For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.

Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.

Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.

I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media.

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems - and of Katia Mann's extremely sympathetic response to them

I have learned the power of surviving.

Not actively surviving is passively dying.

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?

Surviving, that's my plan.

Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.

So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving funds exceeds that of the market.

Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.

I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

I mean, personally, I would have had no problem surviving. Come on, how hard is it to swim?

I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.

In the darkest time, I have always believed, the light will shine.

May you find strength to survive life.

They oppressed us but unable to kill our spirit.

The benefits often outweigh the suffering. Never concentrate on the pain, focus on the reward.

May you find grace to survive life difficulties.