Staying Alive Quotes - Page 4

• It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.

  Carl Safina

  Trying, Doe, Albatross

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• My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without inspiration. I go day to day and do the work because it's all I know. I know that if I keep moving I stand a chance. I must keep myself going until I find a reason to live. I need one so bad. On the other hand maybe I don't. Maybe it's all bullshit. Nothing I knew from my old life can help me here. Most of the things that I believed turned out to be useless. Appendages from someone else's life.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Inspiration, Hands

  Henry Rollins (2005). “Roomanitarian”, 2.13.61

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• Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in life. I feel that over years of endurance, hard work and perseverance of determination and conviction, of claiming our rights to stay alive, to be free and to be ourselves, of fighting the biggest wars as much as the smaller ones, our will can indeed move mountains for us.

  Joumana Haddad

  Perseverance, Determination, War

  Joumana Haddad (2011). “I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman”, p.62, Chicago Review Press

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• My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Jobs, Medicine, Research

  "The Nights and Days Of Elizabeth Edwards". Interview with Monica Langley, www.wsj.com. July 21, 2007.

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• Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.

  Gordon Strachan

  Football, Nice, Scotland

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• You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Alive, Pants, Circumstances

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• The dreams now were simply of staying alive.

  John Marsden

  Dream, Alive, Staying

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?

  Sergei Yesenin

  Love, Alive, Share

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• I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

  Chaim Potok

  Reading, Order, Alive

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• I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Regret, Home, Two

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• Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

  Octavia Butler

  Pain, Hypocrite, Sleep

  Octavia E. Butler (2014). “Kindred”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.

  Kathy Acker

  Order, Battle, Alive

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Empire of the Senseless”, p.69, Grove Press

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• I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Food, Alive, Ridiculous

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.

  Mira Grant

  Lying, Needs, Alive

  Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Hurt, Funny Things

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

  George Orwell

  Life And Death, Alive, Want

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.

  Marie Howe

  Stories, Alive, Firsts

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• BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS
  EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED
  AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU.
  YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE,
  WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO,
  AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE
  IT'S ANY GOOD TO ACT.

  Jenny Holzer

  Believe, Thinking, Done

  Jenny Holzer, Stefan Banz, Thomas Whitridge, Béatrix Ruf (2001). “Jenny Holzer: xenon”

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• I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Lucky, Done, Alive

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• Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."

  E. B. White

  Beautiful, Lying, Air

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• Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

  Sidney Hook

  Betrayal, Cost, Hook

  Sidney Hook, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ, Paul Hollander (1987). “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”

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• Your staying alive means so much more than you really know, or that anyone is aware of at this moment.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Mean, Alive, Moments

  "Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. December 9, 2015.

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• The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

  Campbell McGrath

  Interesting, Culture, Alive

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• Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.

  Lil B

  Years, People, Personality

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

  Brendan Behan

  Suicide, Determination, Men

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