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• When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Sleep, Insomnia, Impossible

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• A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Dangerous Situations, Anxiety, Want

  "The Function of the Orgasm". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1927.

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• As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what it means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes are glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator.

  Kevin Hearne

  War, Reading, Mean

  "Tricked". Book by Kevin Hearne, April 24, 2012.

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• In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Sunset, Divinity

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• There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Morning, Wrath, Desire

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• ... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

  Frida Kahlo

  Skeletons, Faces, Terrified

  Frida Kahlo (1978). “Frida Kahlo, 1910-1954: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago”

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• Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Achievement, Reverence For Life, Direct

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.109, Oxford University Press

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• Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

  Karel Capek

  Soul, Robots, Literature

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the landscape leads us in the direction of disorder and death. They are categorically evil. These dispositions are destroying our only home-planet and other organisms that share it. They defeat our need to care about where we are and the things in place there. They prompt us to feel that civilization is not worth carrying on. They rob us of our identity and our will to live. These things are not about personal taste or style.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Home, Civilization, Evil

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

  Charles Mingus

  Soul, Music Is, Evidence

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• The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Will Power

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2017). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.40, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Race, Soul, Stalwart

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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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• It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.

  Albert Claude

  Struggle, Cells, Experiments

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• It is not possible to live in today's society without a cozy home. What is a cozy home? A cozy home is a place where there is a unity in all those who live there, an understanding in all those who relate to it. There is a will to sacrifice for each other; there is a will to live for each other; there is a will to protect each other.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Home

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• Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts

  James Nicoll

  Strong, Becoming, Peter

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• Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On one level this truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. The language of my books has shaped me as a man. There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

  Don DeLillo

  Integrity, Book, Men

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• There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

  Dick Gregory

  Giving, Force

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• Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Self

  "Philosophy of Civilisation". Book by Albert Schweitzer, Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics, Preface, 1949.

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• There's this exhausting energy from you getting your lines out and your words right, especially if it's a complicated scene. And as soon as the camera is off you and goes on the other person, you're talking garbled garbage and you feel so sorry for them because you've lost the will to live, after 18 hours of saying those lines. That's terribly unfair. So, I do love the quick-paced nature of it.

  Dominic Cooper

  Sorry, Talking, Cameras

  "Dominic Cooper Talks NEED FOR SPEED, Fulfilling His Childhood Dream of Doing a Racing Movie, the Stunts, WARCRAFT, FLEMING, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

  Jane Siberry

  Sleep, Pay, Hungry

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• The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that is woven into all living beings.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Teacher, Medicine, Firefighter

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Smoking, Littles, Quitting

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.178, Penguin

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• The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Men, Thinking

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavour now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in tha lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Sweet, Horse

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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