Staying Alive Quotes

• I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

  J. D. Salinger

  Friendship, Alive, Want

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• But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Past, Reality, Dwelling

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• It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

  George Orwell

  Important, Alive, Betray

  "Fictional character: Winston Smith". "1984", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.

  Frank Peretti

  Nice, Live Life, Forever

  Frank E. Peretti (2011). “Monster”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Book

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• They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

  Charles Bukowski

  Alive, Pay, Back To Work

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• Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Romantic, Long, Movie Love

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• I love you. You're my only reason to stay alive... if that's what I am.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Romantic, Love You, Movie Love

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• Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

  Tom Schulman

  Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society, Engineering

  "Dead Poets Society". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Reading, Men

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• The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Stay Strong, Giving Up, Numbers

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• I work to stay alive.

  Bette Davis

  Alive

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• The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Life, Memories, Coffee

  Kenneth Rexroth (1969). “An autobiographical novel”

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• We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Memories, Thinking, Should Have

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.66, A&C Black

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• The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Years, Water, Tree

  Joseph M. Marshall III (2005). “The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History”, p.113, Penguin

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• With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Alive, Scar, Despite

  Marilyn Hacker (2015). “A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014”, p.93, W. W. Norton & Company

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• That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.

  Michael Cunningham

  People, Alive

  "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

  George Orwell

  Children, Real, Thinking

  George Orwell (2017). “The Collected Non-Fiction”, Penguin UK

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• When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.’ I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didn’t know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive.

  Ishmael Beah

  Father, Moving, Journey

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.54, Sarah Crichton Books

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• Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

  Mitch Albom

  Love, Death, Gone

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2015

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• I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.

  Bill Cosby

  Healthy, Alive, Want

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• Stay in the game and stay alive.

  Joe Teti

  Games, Survival, Alive

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• You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.

  Brent Weeks

  Alive

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.357, Hachette UK

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• The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

  Richard Louv

  Focus, Needs, Attention

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.19, Algonquin Books

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