Reason To Live Quotes - Page 2

• So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.

  Jonathan Adler

  Home, Ignorance, Color

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• Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is simply to transfer the onus of purpose to the next generation; the displacements amounts to a cowardly and potentially infinite delay. Your children's answer, presumably, will be to procreate as well, and in doing so to distract themselves, to foist their own aimlessness onto their offspring.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Generations, Purpose

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.255, Counterpoint Press

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• Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They also forget that music can be a source of hope, a reason to live.

  Jeri Smith-Ready

  Reflection, Thinking, Rocks

  Jeri Smith-Ready (2009). “Wicked Game”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• But homosexuality is a combat divider, dividing one's reason to live while taking breaks on the combat field to change diapers all because their treacherous sin causes them to lose control of their bowels.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Insane, Taking A Break, Diapers

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• It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

  Voltaire

  Triumph, Reason, Folks

  Voltaire (2015). “Socrates”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth.

  Ricky Gervais

  Sports, Fun, Beer

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• I did it because I thought I could die quickly if I lived like that. I couldn't end my life, leaving behind my younger sister. I thought that if I lived that way I would get punished and end this crappy life early. But now I want to live. Because I have a reason to live.

  Ma-Roo

  Love, Drama, Leaving

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• To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Things In Life, Community

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• All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Success, Creativity

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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• Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging denial of current hegemonies.The poor must be given reasons to live, not to kill or die.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Country, Strong, War

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• Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, Succeed, Reason

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• I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Reason, Hundred, Convince

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• If you took away music, I wouldnt have a reason to live.

  Demi Lovato

  Reason, Ifs

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• In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the tangled web of our fate was inescapable. Why did these women love each other to the point of madness? Why did they loathe one another so vehemently, and why did sworn enemies feel such horror and fascination for one another? Why should furious hate become obsession, then intoxication and the very reason to live?Because love and hate were the two heads of the demon.

  Shan Sa

  Wall, Hate, Fate

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• Kill myself? Killing myself is the last thing I'd ever do. Now I have a purpose, a reason to live. I don't care who I have to face, I don't care who I have to fight, I will not rest until this street gets a stop sign!

  Dan Castellaneta

  Fighting, Purpose, Care

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• Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.

  Ronnie Shakes

  Relationship, Revenge, Dating

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• The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

  Gore Vidal

  Family, Suffering, Together

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• We are living in a world in which we don't give the young enough reason to live. The temper and the lyrics of a lot of punk music and so on is very, life sucks and then you die, sort of theory. I feel life is cheaper and death is more attractive now than it was when I was an adolescent, as I remember. Suicide was a personal pathology when it was committed. There was no society approval of it, like there certainly is in Palestine and some quarters of Iraq.

  John Updike

  Suicide, Life Sucks, Giving

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• For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Romantic, Kissing, Talking

  Song: Crush On You, Album: The River, 1980

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• There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in doing so, you will have deterred most criminals from choosing you as their victim.

  Marc MacYoung

  Criminals, Violence, Reason

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• Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

  Richard Bach

  Ignorance, Fishing, Skills

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hate, Heart, Reason

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• Humor is the only reason to live.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Reason

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• Short people got no reason to live.

  Randy Newman

  People, Reason, Controversy

  Song: Short People, Album: Little Criminals

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