I'm Just Trying To Survive Quotes

#1. You're a bad person, Ellie," he said without a trace of irony.
"I'm not bad. The world is bad and I'm just trying to survive in it.

Karina Halle

#2. Right now I'm just trying to survive, I know I'm gonna get there, dead or alive.

Roger Hodgson

#3. I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.

Christopher Tin

#4. Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Dora Russell

#5. I know you think that we saved you or something, Jeremy," he said. "That we were stronger than you. But we're not. We weren't. We're all just trying to survive however we can.

Kate Scelsa

#6. Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.

Terry Pratchett

#7. We wake up most days not trying to serve, just trying to survive.

Kevin DeYoung

#8. History ain't so important when yer just trying to survive," I say, spitting it out under my breath. "That's actually when it's most important," Hildy says,

Patrick Ness

#9. When I was cognizant of the war, I was very angry at the street-corner liberals who were trying to defame the footsoldier. Because there was a man who had no choice. He was a cog in the wheel, just trying to survive. I was always aware of that.

Sylvester Stallone

#10. The men in this station survive by virtue of their jellyfish quality. There isn't one who would stand against him. Trying to rally the others to put pressure on "Hallam" would be like asking strands of cooked spaghetti to come to attention.

Isaac Asimov

#11. When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

Barry Sonnenfeld

#12. The solutions the non-profits are trying to provide aren't keeping pace with the problems they're trying to survive.

Jeff Henderson

#13. It may seem strange, but I have an aversion to people trying to kill me. It sparks this almost unconscious desire to do something about it. It also sets fire to my desire to survive.

G.R. Matthews

#14. We're withering roses trying to survive all we need is a little love and care and we can be blooming again

Rose Withering

#15. He steps forward and kisses my forehead. His breath is soft, devastating warmth on my face. He turns and leaves. He chooses survival over me. It's no different than what I have done. We are both just trying so hard to survive me.

Tara Brown

#16. Everyone too busy trying to survive to spend any time creating something new.

James S.A. Corey

#17. The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters have a lot on their shoulders and are often trying to survive in some very difficult and hostile environments.

Jaime Murray

#18. Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

Daniel Quinn

#19. Are you with the Resistance?" "No. I am simply trying to survive, and to help those I can." Fleur

Stephen P. Kiernan

#20. I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

Deana Carter

#21. I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.

Ron Carlson

#22. Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.

Christian De Duve

#23. She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.

Laini Taylor

#24. All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Tupac Shakur

#25. We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

Eric Jerome Dickey

#26. 'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It's a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.

Greg Van Eekhout

#27. Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

Cheryl Rainfield

#28. It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison.

Noam Chomsky

#29. I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

Deborah Wiles

#30. I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.

Alexandra Bracken

#31. I can understand how hard it is. Being a tiny lamb and trying to survive among hungry wolves.

M.F. Moonzajer

#32. The poor are so busy trying to survive from one day to the next, they haven't the time or energy to keep score.

Studs Terkel

#33. We're all just humans, doing the best we can. We're all just trying to survive, and in the process, inch the world forward a little bit.

Ryan Holiday

#34. And in the end, I think, we're all just trying to survive, aren't we?

Janice Y.K. Lee

#35. Most common thing in marriage is to see the man or the woman, or both, each in their own way, trying to destroy the third person that they form together, the one that resists, that wants to survive regardless,

Jose Saramago

#36. My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

Ai Weiwei

#37. Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Ehud Olmert

#38. We're simply trying to survive - and the first principle of survival is not to worry about the impossible and concentrate on what's possible.

Robert A. Heinlein

#39. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having.

Neil Gaiman

#40. The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

Tucker Max

#41. Yes I pay taxes ... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

Stefan Molyneux

#42. He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.

Laini Taylor

#43. Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

Julianna Baggott

#44. You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both ... wealthy in love.

Maggie Stiefvater

#45. There's no way to be sure," Irene said. "The biggest threat is giving up hope. If he decides there's no chance to survive, he'll stop trying.

Andy Weir

#46. To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.

James Bertolino

#47. With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

J.J. Abrams

#48. Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.

Phil Lesh

#49. I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

Tyler Perry

#50. Even after all of these years, Amelia London was still my kryptonite, and she still didn't know it.
I couldn't think straight around her. My body reacted on its own around her. My heart, too. It was Amelia's world, and I was just trying to survive in it.

J.J. McAvoy

#51. I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens.

Annalee Newitz

#52. Are there books about us or something? This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.

Julianna Baggott