Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individuals instinct for self preservation. – Albert Einstein
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. – Nikita Khrushchev
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. – Iris Murdoch
Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, thats its not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain –if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it. – Richard Milhous Nixon
All Im trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet. – Joshua Nkomo
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. – George Orwell
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. – Morris K. Udall
I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They dont know how – Elie Wiesel
Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price. – Elie Wiesel
