Top 100 Quotes About Survival Instinct
#1. Being able to escape to a dreamland was a survival instinct for me.
Mia Sheridan
#2. 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
#3. My brother has absolutely no sense of self-preservation or survival instinct," Eli said. "He has no idea we're out here. We could be silver-eating, flesh-regenerating, vampire zombies, and when we busted through the door to eat his brilliant brain, he'd look up and say, 'Huh?
Faith Hunter
#4. Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
Theodore Sturgeon
#6. 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
#7. Inertia is the most powerful force in business. Things stay just as they are until something - brute force, reason, fear, enlightened self-interest, the survival instinct - effects movement.
Patrick G. Riley
#8. My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
Victoria Aveyard
#9. What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege.
Piers Anthony
#10. As a survival instinct, people have selective sight. Sometimes we do not perceive what we should because it will break us inside. We can't break. We must stand strong for the world is a cruel place and the only want to defeat its wickedness is to pretend that it does not harm us.
Annie Ortiz
#11. 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
#12. There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.
Barbara Demick
#13. 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 West
#14. Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it's not the same thing. Fear isn't the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist. Fear is existential.
John Scalzi
#15. Amazing what humans could do to one another when their survival instinct kicked in.
Jason M. Hough
#16. The survival instinct prove that we are alive. (L'instinct de survie - Prouve qu'on est en vie.)
Charles De Leusse
#17. Our need to knock celebrities is ... Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.
Peaches Geldof
#18. I don't know if cats understand what their owners say, but they do have a strong survival instinct.
Manel Loureiro
#19. The fear of death is presumably a survival instinct, Tin Win later thought. It must be an essential part of us, of every living creature. At the same time, we must transcend it to take our leave in peace. He found this an irresolvable contradiction.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#20. You go into this survival instinct mode, when you feel like your life is in jeopardy. I found myself in the bathroom with my taser, which I have 10 of, my panic button and my cell phone. It was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life
Emma Roberts
#21. After 15 years living in Paris, I felt myself growing old and stagnant - similar to stagnant water sitting in a bowl; cats have a survival instinct not to drink this water. They can sense when it's old and may be carrying air-borne germs. After 15 years in Paris, I no longer felt drinkable.
Roman Payne
#22. I don't even want to win, but I think there's this survival instinct inside all of us that clicks on when we see other people failing. It makes me feel gross and incredibly human.
Julie Murphy
#23. Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.
John Branch
#24. should I respect the work of the creator, of the gardener, or should I accept the survival instinct with which nature endowed this plant, which I now call a 'weed'?
Paulo Coelho
#25. But in reality, when faced with death and the great unknown that came after, my survival instinct snatched wildly at whatever lifeline was offered. I didn't want to die. Even if it meant becoming something I loathed, my nature was, first and always, to survive.
Julie Kagawa
#27. I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#28. A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive - and nowhere else! - and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.
Robert A. Heinlein
#29. False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.
Ymatruz
#31. Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
Rollo May
#32. The spirit finds a way to be born.
Instinct seeks for ways to survive.
Toba Beta
#33. There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
Pat Summitt
#34. Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#37. Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
Robert A. Heinlein
#41. The lucky ones died in the blasts. They were spared the fate of starvation, cannibalism, rape and slaughter. Where a man could be killed over half-eaten can of corn.
Joe Reyes
#44. Your soul may be trampled in times of troubles. But if your spirit is strong, you will survive.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust.
Jocelyn Murray
#49. Choices, Choices, Choices!
Listen to your instincts; you will make the best-choices.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#50. I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.
Julian Barnes
#51. His first instinct was to help me, not sit like a deer in headlights, I now know that Matt isn't one to panic
Joe Teti
#54. Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival.
Elie Tahari
#55. Survival requires guts and instinct.
Toba Beta
#57. The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.
Lofty Wiseman
#58. I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#59. Faith gives us strength.
Grace gives us power.
Hope gives us anchor.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#64. When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
Yann Martel
#66. Show me a man who has no interest in his own good, and I'll show you a man who is not in touch with his own humanity."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#67. Of course there are mothers,
squeezing their breasts
dry, pawning their bodies,
shedding teeth for their children,
or that's our fond belief.
But remember - Hansel
and Gretel were dumped in the forest
because their parents were starving.
Margaret Atwood
#68. Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.
Criss Jami
#69. I have experienced deep despair, mental-ill health and attempt of suicide.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#70. For many years eagerly thought by your enemy to destroying your life, it's all one second of mastery for you to save your life from his deadly plans, for you to survive.
Auliq Ice
#71. People talk about fight or flight? That's nonsense. It's fight and flight.
Amanda Bouchet
#72. Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
Robert A. Heinlein
#73. In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.
Tanith Lee
#74. Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.
Paul Pearsall
#75. When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness,
there are three things that can show you the way:
instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation,
creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.
Toba Beta
#76. The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#79. They are as smart as they are ruthless. That's why they've been around for all five years.
Joe Reyes
#84. The Great stories give us the hope and the courage to survive life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. The suit came up, and Holston thought that maybe people went along with it because they couldn't believe it was happening. None of it was real enough to rebel against. The animal part of his mind wasn't made for this, to be calmly ushered to a death it was perfectly aware of.
Hugh Howey
#87. Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
Albert Einstein
#88. There was something about that man when he was all angry and dangerous that got my blood up. Sometimes my survival instincts are not what they should be.
Patricia Briggs
#92. Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#96. But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#97. Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#98. You will face many troubles. But the Lord will deliver you each time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#99. There is an art to living that is far above the base human instinct of survival. I want to live beautifully.
Jennie Allen
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