Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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

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

And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

I think it's important that you always transform if you can. That's what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can - that's the key to longevity.

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.

Life will find a way.

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

I am what survives of me.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

We are powerful because we have survived

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

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

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

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

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.

Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.