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“Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“On a long enough time line, everyone's survival rate drops to zero.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“You ask, What is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.” Winston Churchill, The Second World War
“our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.” Dan Simmons, Hyperion
“Nature can’t evolve a species that hasn’t a will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never decide to cease to exist.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.” Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.” Jack London, The Call of the Wild
“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.” John Green, Paper Towns
“Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
“It was not, after all, so easy to die.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“in everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's how we survive.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
“When we reflect on this struggle we may console ourselves with the full belief that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.” Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just ... come out the other side. Or you don’t.” Stephen King, The Stand
“Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomised life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in...” Jack London, White Fang
“the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.” George MacDonald, Phantastes
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.” George Orwell, 1984
“I've never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it's much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that's probably just because it's you. Ordinary people seem to make it through the day without so many catastrophes.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“It is essential as a matter of simple survival for us to understand science. In addition, science is a delight; evolution has arranged that we take pleasure in understanding—those who understand are more likely to survive.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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