#viv

I took to the Kingswood the midsummer after the Dame died. I did not swear a vow, but I kept to myself just as strictly, living like a beast in the forest from one midsummer to the next, without fire or iron or the taste of meat. I lived as prey, and I learned from the dogs how to run, from the hare how to hide in the bracken, and from the deer how to go hungry. In sorrow and pride I exiled myself to Kingswood. I shunned fire for I feared the kingsmen would hunt me down, and so by the way of cold and hunger I came near to refusing life itself. I never thought to anger or please a god by it. ↗

— Sarah Micklem

#gods #hiding #hunger #running-away #survival

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. ↗

— James Baldwin

#expression #james-baldwin #nausea #survival #vomit

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#after #became #cancer #character #delved

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#comics #creativity #human-activity #instincts #reproduction

Exister est un fait, vivre est un art. Tout le chemin de la vie, c’est passer de l’ignorance à la connaissance, de la peur à l’amour. ↗

— Frédéric Lenoir

#art

The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#martial-arts #size #survival #art

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world. ↗

— Velma Wallis

#athabaskan #courage #inspiration #survival #courage

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#before #come #curiosity #end #i

No te aficiones más que a lo que te acontezca y a lo que forme la trama de la vida. ¿Pues qué otra cosa podrá serte más oportuna? ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#art

They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting. ↗

— Velma Wallis

#athabaskan #courage #inspirational #survival #courage