{"quotes":[{"text":"In the perspective of our species, life has favored humanity as a whole by promoting as much wealth of variety and options as possible, and has distributed everything using the four winds. Life has given mankind everything it has, without segregation and without consideration of which characteristic or quality best suits the situations or the periods. Only by having the totality of human characteristics and options can we hope to deal with all periods to come.Our collective is our key to survival and well-being.","author":"Haroutioun Bochnakian","tags":["humanism","inspirational","perspective","self-knowledge","survival"],"id":260,"author_id":"Haroutioun+Bochnakian"},{"text":"Being able to endure is sometimes the key to survival.","author":"Eraldo Banovac","tags":["endure","survival"],"id":954,"author_id":"Eraldo+Banovac"},{"text":"I saw a bullfrog snap a tiny bird off a reed once, swallowing it just like that, grinding the singing thing to foodstuff in its slimy belly, and the witnessing of that act produced in me an insight: that this moment of terror before resignation was possibly the only ascertainable moment of truth we can ever know in life.","author":"Carl Watson","tags":["life","survival","terror","the-unknown","truth"],"id":1793,"author_id":"Carl+Watson"},{"text":"I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has created as many problems as it has fixed, but we're here, we're alive, we're the human race, we have survived wars and terrorism and scarcity and global famine, and we have made it back from the brink, not once but many times. History is not a suicide note - it's a record of our survival.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["apocalypse","humanity","inspirational","survival"],"id":2204,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"Your shield must surpass your weaponry.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["extinction","shield","survival","war","weapon","win"],"id":2219,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.","author":"Derek Thompson","tags":["familiarity","heredity","history","popular-science","psychology","survival"],"id":2320,"author_id":"Derek+Thompson"},{"text":"I forced my weary body up from the ground, my eyes burning with rage. I'd had enough of nearly dying. I'd had enough of secrets and mysteries. I was filled to the brim with pain and misery. It had taken its toll on me. It was hard to hold on to the very things that made you human, when there was nothing good left inside of you. In fact, I no longer felt human. I didn't feel anything except anger. It was time to find Kellan.","author":"Rose Wynters","tags":["anger","broken","broken-heart","brokenness","feel-good","fighting-back","fighting-spirit","inspiration","rage","secrets","survival","tough","zombies"],"id":2840,"author_id":"Rose+Wynters"},{"text":"Yes,” I whisper so the others won’t hear, “but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose.","author":"Caroline George","tags":["fear","loss","strength","survival","the-end-of-the-world","young-adult-fiction"],"id":3019,"author_id":"Caroline+George"},{"text":"To everyone in the foyer reading the lists, or on the sidewalks waving signs and photos of their families who’d disappeared, I said over and over again: “Everyone is dead.” If they insisted, showing me family photos, I’d calmly say: “Were there any children? Not a single child will come back.” I didn’t mince my words, I didn’t try to spare their feelings, I was used to death. I’d become as hard-hearted as the deportees who saw us arrive at Birkenau without saying a single comforting word. Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them.","author":"Marceline Loridan-Ivens","tags":["grief","grief-and-loss","survival","war"],"id":4848,"author_id":"Marceline+Loridan-Ivens"},{"text":"Becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent's place and think from the opponent's point of view.","author":"Miyamoto Musashi","tags":["culture","fighting","opponent","point-of-view","samurai","survival","thinking","thoughts"],"id":4947,"author_id":"Miyamoto+Musashi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1114,"pages":112,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}