Staying Alive Quotes - Page 7

• Dear Torina, I can't face the idea of sacrificing you to this danger. You must stay alive." He caressed her cheek. "Hear me," he went on. "Even if you feel only friendship, Torina, I've loved you since the day you helped me to my feet. I tried so hard to stop. Then I thought you were dead, and my life hurt every day.

  Victoria Hanley

  Hurt, Sacrifice, Ideas

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• The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you time to write and you spend all of it staying alive while you write, and you write your heart out, after all that, maybe no one will publish it, and if they publish it, maybe no one will read it. That is the hard truth, that is what it means to be a writer.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Writing, Heart, Mean

  Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Years, Mind

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• I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Baby, Memorable, Years

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• If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

  Thomas Jane

  Challenges, Alive, Challenging Myself

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• A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

  Albert Einstein

  Cat, Rainy Day, Men

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• I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. But since the tendency toward inertia means that it's easier for me to stay alive than die, I guess that's how it's going to be, so I guess I should try to be happy.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicidal, Mean, Trying

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Hurt, Hair

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.812, Modern Library

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• I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.

  Langston Hughes

  Alive, Way, Return

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• They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

  Russel Honore

  Stay Positive, Survival, Alive

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• In the eulogy by the graveside, I told everyone how my sister and I used to sing to each other on our birthday. I told them that, when I thought of my sister, I could still hear her laughter, sense her optimism, and feel her faith. I told them that my sister was the kindest person I;ve ever known, and that the world was a sadder place without her in it. And finally, I told them to remember my sister with a smile, like I did, for even though she was being buried near my parents, the best parts of her would always stay alive, deep within our hearts.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Laughter, Heart, Optimism

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• I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.

  George Best

  Mistake, Lying, Deceit

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• I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Men, Thinking

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• Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.

  Richard Wollheim

  Growing Up, Alive, Way

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• Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

  Mark Nepo

  Feelings, Tragedy, Done

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.183, Conari Press

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• What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.

  Lillian Vernon

  Business, Games, Challenges

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• Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

  Robert Jordan

  Thinking, Alive, Want

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.403, Macmillan

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• You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style' - as if you had a choice in the matter... What you're doing is trying to stay alive and continue and not die.

  Philip Guston

  Choices, Style, Trying

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• So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty spaces. If I'm waiting for a bus, or am eating alone, I can always rely on a book to keep me company. Sometimes I think I like them even more than people. People will let you down in life. They'll disappoint you and hurt you and betray you. But not books. They're better than life.

  Marc Acito

  Hurt, Book, Fall

  Marc Acito (2009). “How I Paid for College: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (reissued)”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Animal, Self, Ego

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

  Elia Kazan

  Inspirational, Fighting, Risk

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• As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

  Cornel West

  Long, Civil Rights, Overcoming

  Cornel West (2000). “Race Matters”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

  Ann Landers

  Life, Real, Long

  Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.245, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in order to stay alive. Often they lose their primal enjoyment of flavors and odors and textures to the point of complete unawareness. And if ever they question this progressive numbing-off, they shrug helplessly in the face of mediocrity everywhere. Bit by bit, hour by hour, they say, we are being forced to accept the not-so-good as the best, since there is little that is even good to compare it with.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Philosophy, Real, Medicine

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• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Responsibility, Space

  "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space".

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