Survival Instinct Quotes

• That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

  Danny Boyle

  Powerful, Survival, Needs

  "127 Hours: Director Danny Boyle Says You’d Cut Your Hand Off, Too". Interview with Mary Anne Potts, adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Pain, Self

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Animal, Humanity, Survival

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.188, Macmillan

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• Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe.

  Zoe Bell

  Appreciate, Feelings, Survival

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.

  Kiersten White

  Survival, Instinct, Dies

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• I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him I'm dead.

  Michelle Sagara

  Waiting, Missing, Brain

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Chronicles of Elantra bundle: Cast in Shadow\Cast in Courtlight\Cast in Secret”, p.8, LUNA

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• She asked me what was wrong, and I told her I had to end it. She was surprised, and asked my why I thought so. I told her it wasn't a thought, more a feeling, like I couldn't breathe and knew I had to get some air. It was a survival instinct, I told her. She said it was time for dinner. Then she sat me down and told me not to worry. She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, your'e disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem.

  David Levithan

  Night, Air, Realize Things

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• Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Mean, Survival, Comfort

  Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”

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• Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Survival, Moral, Instinct

  Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”

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• There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

  Pat Summitt

  Survival, Instinct

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.194, Crown Business

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• Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.

  Jim Butcher

  Pain, Mean, Sacrifice

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.11, Penguin

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• What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

  Michael Moore

  Media, Survival, Ingredients

  The Rolling Stone, January 2003.

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• Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our relationship to that survival instinct by constantly asking ourselves, ‘How can I use my life’s energy to benefit all living beings?

  Noah Levine

  Generosity, Survival, Energy

  "The Subversive Side of Generosity" by Jane Kolleeny, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2015.

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• If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Fighting, Men, Sheep

  Oriana Fallaci (1980). “A man”, Simon & Schuster

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• A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream up the idea of immortality. Long before that (in evolutionary terms) all species with brains have the survival instinct in some form. So, I am just saying that there are many existent proofs of species that have one, but not the other.

  Neal Stephenson

  Dream, Ideas, Order

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes. That's when survival instincts kick in.

  Jay Rock

  Kids, Fighting, Worry

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Alertness Is, Perception

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• At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed window – do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physically capable of no more, or does it eventually learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Giving Up, Survival, Trying

  "Forbidden". Book by Tabitha Suzuma, 2010.

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• I think the biggest survival instinct that Midwesterners possess is self deprecation, it's almost a Buddha-like sense of humor in anything that is difficult to get through. They would prefer to laugh at difficulties, show their mettle through that, and toughen up and have a beer afterward. That's definitely the characteristic I've carried through me, and hope to never lose.

  Amy Pietz

  Beer, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Survival, Connections

  "Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview With Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Survival, Trying, Instinct

  Source: djbooth.net

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• People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.

  Tony Robbins

  Pain, People, Survival

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

  Barbara Demick

  Optimistic, Survival, Instinct

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.60, Granta

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• Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.

  Amy Pietz

  Self, Coping Mechanisms, Alcohol

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person’s actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It’s a no-win situation. It’s a death penalty really.

  Dennis Lehane

  Fall, Winning, Insane Person

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