Marilynne Robinson Quotes

No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.

Life will find a way.

We are powerful because we have survived

Life is stronger than death.

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.

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

Surviving means being born over and over.

I'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan. Because if you don't kill all of us at once, whoever's left are not going to be the weak ones. The strong ones- and only the strong ones- will survive. The bent but unbroken, if you know what I mean. People like me. And people like you.

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

Life doesn't retreat.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

Survival is triumph enough.

Those who live are those who fight.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

While we breathe, we will hope.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

We insist, it seems, on living.

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

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

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.