"To a man with an empty stomach food is god."

Survival, Food, God, Man, Hunger

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"The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it."

David Levithan, American Author

Survival, Support, Hope, Strength

"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, American Author

Survival, Death, Emotion, Life

"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Survival, Happiness, Brilliant, Work

"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."

Stephen King, American Author

Survival, Education, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die."

David Levithan, American Author

Survival, Death, Life, Struggle

"A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Survival, Endurance, Life, Strength

"If we can somehow survive this world, we would've achieved something in this world."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

Survival, World, Achievement, Hope

"The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Survival, Struggle, Persistence, Obsession, Self

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"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

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"The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads."

"From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes."

"When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it."

"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!"

"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."

"Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die."

"A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction."

"If we can somehow survive this world, we would've achieved something in this world."

Explore more quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

"It does not require money to live neat, clean, and dignified."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will."

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."

"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."

"My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness."

"It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words."

"Peace is its own reward."

"Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny."

"In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all."

"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."