"When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end."

Survival, Decision, Conflict, Life

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"When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end."

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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Adaptation, Comparison, Wisdom

"That's a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it's not really true. It's like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Survival, Trauma, Body, Mind, Separation

"If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Survival, Protection, Image, Perception, Power

"It's more like the anger what keep us alive, if yoh are Happy - you are fucking open to dead."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Survival, Anger, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Wolf, Hungry, Sheep, Befriend

"A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Survival, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom, Power

"He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Survival, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Future

"Humans get used to even if they are in the hell."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Survival, Adaptation, Reality, Truth

"After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Survival, Escape, Life, Truth

"Fear is the venom impact of predator sting, causing prey not to be focus on the survival."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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Explore more quotes by Orson Scott Card

"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

Life

"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."

Power

"Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him."

Perception

"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."

Love

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Morality

"Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price."

Happiness

"Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind."

Family

"But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom."

Wisdom

"Madness, and then illumination."

Psychology

"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

Mortality