#survival

Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing. ↗

— Steve Voake

#optimism #survival #death

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim. ↗

— Vicki Harrison

#grief #loss #love #strength #survival

Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors! ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#survivor-syndrome #death

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster. ↗

— Robert Fanney

#elves #life #luthiel #mithorden #monsters

I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone. ↗

— Tim Kreider

#survival #death

Children accept the conditions they are born into, and, to a degree, I was getting used to the bombings, fires, and death around me. I remember that I thought those things were normal. It is grown-ups who worry about things, and this ... this was total panic! I could taste the fear, and I could see that my mother was frightened, which I had never seen before, and this made me even more frightened. ↗

— Alfred Nestor

#alfred-nestor #author-alfred-nestor #children-in-war #hitler #hitler-s-germany

The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have. ↗

— Laurence Gonzales

#survival #experience

Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives. Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their papa anyway. Chose him and then died for it. She was like that Jesus that Helga preached about in her kitchen while they ate. She died for her people. And Achilles, he was like God. He made people pay for their sins no matter what they did. The important thing is, stay on the good side of God. That's what Helga teaches, isn't it? Stay right with God. I'll stay right with Achilles. I'll honor my papa, that's for sure, so I can stay alive until I'm old enough to go out on my own. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#forgiveness #god #jesus #metaphor #murder

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#life #survival #food

And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi. ↗

— Michael Grant

#gone-series #lies #michael-grant #sanjit #survival