Staying Alive Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Moving, Alive

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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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• 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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• I never knew how much we consumed. It seems as if we are all appetite, as if a human being is simply a bundle of needs to drain the world. It’s no wonder there are wars, no wonder the earth and water and air are polluted. It’s no wonder the economy collapsed, if Eva and I use so much merely to stay alive.

  Jean Hegland

  War, Air, Water

  Jean Hegland (2016). “Into The Forest”, p.124, Random House

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• You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Struggle, Long, Use

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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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• 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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• Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

  Larry Kramer

  Writing, Views, Seductive

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• War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

  Aminatta Forna

  War, People, Survival

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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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• I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.

  Margaret Drabble

  Garden, Banking, Alive

  The Guardian, January 2, 1993.

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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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• 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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• If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Children, Responsibility, Alive

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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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• 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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• 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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• And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.

  Don Altman

  Hurt, Self, Goal

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• After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

  Monica Bellucci

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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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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• 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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• 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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• I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole in it and use it to stay alive.

  Demetri Martin

  Air, Trying, Bed

  Twitter post from Apr 17, 2012

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