... a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.

But just get through this day. That's all you have to do.

Survival is triumph enough.

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

I don't know how to light. All I know is how to stay alive.

The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in the long run to start thinking.

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

When you get to the end of your rope - tie a knot in it and hang on.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that man is bound to pursue his own ends by all possible means, while he who errs but once pays dearly