S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Survival isn’t a straight line, it’s messy. The body’s on strike, the mind doesn’t know if it’s losing or winning, and you’re stuck in the middle just trying to make sense of it. They say healing is supposed to be linear but it’s not, it’s chaos and contradictions, like trying to solve a math problem when half the numbers are missing. And still inside that disorder there’s a strange clarity, because the real victory isn’t beating the illness, it’s showing up anyway, it’s laughing when nothing feels funny, it’s finding love in the moments that don’t add up. I don’t know if I’m really getting better, maybe that’s the point, maybe it’s not about better or worse at all, maybe it’s just about showing up in the middle of the chaos and realizing that’s kind of beautiful too.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“Survival isn’t all there is to life”
“Survival isn’t just about staying alive. It’s about keeping your soul intact.”
Source: Inversion
“Survival isn’t poetry. It’s war. And I won.”
“Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”
“Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines who can only learn on the basis of overt trial and error. The trouble with overt trial is that it takes time and energy. The trouble with overt error is that it is often fatal. Simulation is both safer and faster. The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have cumulated in subjective consciousness.”
“Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is going to crumble. If countries of Third World cannot pay their debts, you are going to suffer here in the North. If you do not take care of the Third World, your well-being is not going to last, and you will not be able to continue living in the way you have been much longer. It is leaping out at us already. You cannot leave the job to the governments or the political scientists alone. You have to do it yourself.”
“Survival mode becomes our default when we inhabit it for months or years, and it begins to exact a significant toll. Physiologically, it manifests as chronic fatigue, disrupted sleep, weakened immunity, and increased susceptibility to illness. Psychologically, it presents as numbness, lack of joy, and disconnection from oneself and the world”
Source: The New Me: A Step-by-Step Guide to Personal Reinvention
“Survival must come before civilization.”
“Survival, my only hope.
Success, my only revenge.
Sarcasm, my only weapon.
Bravery, my only shield.”
“Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge”
Source: Postmortem
“Survival of the fittest can take us only so far; competition and aggression have brought us to the brink of self-destruction. What is needed now is survival of the wisest. You can participate in this shift by expanding your own awareness.”
“Survival of the fittest is law of the jungle, sacrifice for the helpless is law of the human society.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.”
“Survival of the fittest is the motto of animal, sacrifice for the helpless is the motto of human.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.”
“Survival of the fittest," which Sax had always considered a useless tautology. But if social Darwinists were taking over, then maybe the concept gained importance, as a religious dogma of the ruling order....”
Source: Green Mars
“Survival of the world depends on our sharing what we have, and working together. If we don't the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people.”
“Survival often feels like an indignity.”
“Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Survival protocol says follow water out, and that's exactly what we're going to do.”
“Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.”
“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.”
Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
“Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.”
Source: Never to Sleep
“Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage.”
Source: Khu: A Tale of Ancient Egypt
“Survival was my primary mission at school.”
“Survival was not enough—thriving, evolving, and loving fiercely were the real victories.”
Source: a three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope
“Survival was not enough. One had to live.”
Source: Captain's Fury
“Survival was the only prize that mattered, but even that felt leased, not owned.”
Source: Nexus Fault: Volume 1
“Survival wasn’t always about dignity. Sometimes, it meant fighting fire with fire, even if the flames left you singed.”
Source: From Valhalla
“Survival wasn’t courage or triumph. It was the body staggering forward anyway after fear had stripped you raw.”
Source: Death in Driftless Hollow
“Survival without preparation is just delayed chaos.”
“Survival's the thing, isn't it?”
Source: Tempus Unbound
“Survival, I know, is to begin again.”
Source: Trust Your Heart
“Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.”
Source: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
“Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.”
“Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.”
Source: Total Eclipse
“Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.”
“Survivalist without a cause is a hunter. Prepper without a cause is a gardener.”
Source: Why God Doesn't Exist
“Survive, because of the fire that burns within
It sits inside you and melts through pain
And lights the shadows with embers of love
Survive because your heart makes you great
It beats the rhythm to your bones
And sings lullabies to your soul
Survive because your strength lies in all you overcome
It shakes you to lift you and take you bravely home”
Source: The Touch of 10,000 Words: Musings and Poetry: Love, Life, Inner Magic and the Pursuit of Dreams
“Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.”
“Survive. Survive. Survive. It was the way he'd lived his life, moment to moment, breath to breath, since that terrible morning when he'd woken to find that Jordie was still dead and he was still very much alive.
Kaz tumbled through the dark. He was colder than he'd ever been. He thought of Inej's hand on his cheek. His mind had gone jagged at the sensation, a riot of confusion. It had been terror and disgust - in all of that clamour - desire, a wish that lingered still, the hope that she would touch him again.”
Source: Six of Crows
“Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.”
Source: The Work of Mourning
“Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.”
“Surviving a flight without injury is the new era of aviation! It seems we are nearing the end of safe flying, as the atmosphere is getting too turbulent.”
“Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us survives.”
“Surviving a tough situation means staying in the fight and maintaining a warrior's mindset.”
“Surviving alone can be tough, but it's easier than being around people who are not happy to have you.”
“surviving alone is much the same as dying alone”
Source: Before Your Memory Fades
“Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.”
Source: Migrations of the Heart