Survival quotes

“The real trick to survival lies not in running and hiding, but in removing your enemy's capacity to hunt you down.”
Liam Cunningham - Capt. Ryan

“When we're infants, we need others to survive. When we're dying, we need others to survive. But here's the secret. In between, we need others even more.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“I don't wanna scare anyone, but I'm gonna give it to you straight about Jason. His body was never recovered from the lake after he drowned. And if you listen to the old-timers in town, they'll tell you he's still out there, some sort of demented creature, surviving in the wilderness, full grown by now... stalking... stealing what he needs,...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Furey - Paul

“Dinah says something's coming towards us, rather nasty and a rate of knots, and I, for one, believe her! Now, having a knowledge of what it is may not save our lives, but I'm bloody sure the lack of it's gonna put an end to us! And soon!”
Mark Lindsay Chapman - Nick Hopewell

“As you see her, two years later, I wonder if you realize something. I wonder if you understand that all of us: Dolores, me, the children who survived, the children who didn't, that we're all citizens of a different town now. A place with its own special rules and its own special laws. A town of people living in the sweet hereafter.”
Sarah Polley - Nicole Burnell

“The bomb destroyed half the block and Clouseau survived!”
Robert Webber - Philippe Douvier

“I don't want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continuously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tiana Hux - Soap Opera Woman

“- Dorothea: No wonder we're not gettin' anywhere! Get some of this food off the boat!
- Vivian: But I need it to live!”
Myra J. - Dorothea
Nell Carter - Vivian

“We can go away right now. I pack light. Everything we need is right here in my pants.”
Leslie William Nielsen - Ryan Harrison

“We're going to blow out the water now and see if we can get our rear ends out of the sand. If we make it to the surface, things could still get pretty rough. Traffic's heavy up there. And we have to pray the engines start, so we can get out of this mess. The condition the boat is in, we have got to head straight for La Rochelle. If we make it......” (continue)(continue reading)
Jürgen Prochnow - Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - Der Alte

“Every soldier in a war doesn't have to believe in what he's fighting for. Most of them fight just to back up the other soldiers in their squad. They try not to get them killed, they try not to get them extra duty, they try not to embarrass themselves in front of them.”
Joe Morton - Del

Klingon Commander, this is Admiral James T. Kirk. I'm alive and well on the planet's surface. I know that this will come as a pleasant surprise to you, but our ship was a victim of an "unfortunate accident". Sorry about your crew, but as we say on Earth, c'est la vie.
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“There are two reasons why I'm looking at you like this. One because it seems in a few minutes you will officially be the only survivor of this train wreck, and two, because you didn't break one bone, you don't have a scratch on you.”

Michael Kelly - ER Doctor

“Do you know what it is that we've lived this long the way we have? Seventy days? That we climbed this mountain. You know what it is? It's impossible. It's impossible and we did it. I'm proud to be a man on a day like this. Alive. That I lived to see it, and see it in such a place. Take it in. I love you, man. Look, it's magnificent. It's God....” (continue)(continue reading)

Ethan Hawke - Nando Parrado

“- Kamal Khan: You have a nasty habit of surviving.
- James Bond: You know what they say about the fittest.”
Louis Jourdan - Kamal Khan
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond

“Reverse Darwinism - survival of the most idiotic.”

Sam Neill - Dr. Alan Grant

“Call in three months time and I'll be fine, I know. Well, maybe not that fine, but I'll survive anyhow. I won't recall the names and places of each sad occasion, but that's no consolation here and now.”

Madonna - Eva Perón

“- Abdullah: I am a man of peace!
- Charles Remington: You sound like a man who wants to live.”

Om Puri - Abdullah
Michael Douglas - Charles Remington

“- Dr. Marlowe: John! Can you hear me? I know what's wrong with you. I know how you can survive.
- John Strauss: What is it?
- Dr. Marlowe: How badly... do you wanna live?”
Rutger Hauer - Dr. Marlowe
Roy Dupuis - John Strauss

“We've got to survive! Somebody's got to survive!”
David Emge - Stephen

“Now money means nothing. Now it's just about survival.”
Hans Nielsen - 1st Officer Petersen

“The will to survive is strong, stronger than anything.”
Pauline Collins - Margaret Drummond

“Baseball is a red blooded sport for red blooded men. It's no pink tea, and molly-coddles had better stay out... It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

“It's a miracle a child survives here at all. People are so desperate for anything they'll beat a kid bloody if they thought he had five Rand. But if you do run fast enough, if you do survive, you grew up in these streets, these houses. Your parents try, but in the end, you only get the education the white man will give you.”

Denzel Washington - Steve Biko

“- Wladyslaw Szpilman: I don't know how to thank you.
- Captain Wilm Hosenfeld: Thank God, not me. He wants us to survive. Well, that's what we have to believe.”

Adrien Brody - Wladyslaw Szpilman
Thomas Kretschmann - Captain Wilm Hosenfeld